A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 428

The elevation of the slope made it difficult to traverse and even more so for John, who

had to carry Cordy.

However, she was really spent and could not even open her eyes as she leaned in his

arms.

She vaguely heard cars screeching to a stop and the whirring rotors of a helicopter…

Patrick’s people had probably arrived.

What perfect timing-not a moment too soon and not a moment too late.

With that, Cordy finally dozed off.

When she woke up again, she found herself in a place she did not recognize.

It was not the hospital, her apartment in North City, or John’s apartment.

She blinked, her eyelids still feeling very heavy just like her head.

She felt like she had slept for a long while to the point that she could not wake up.

deep voice spoke beside

that familiar face of his and saw that his fair,

were covered in cuts and bruises of every

Blinking, she asked, “Where am

raspy and her throat hurt

quickly

not believe that ‘safe’ applied when she

strength to resist since she could not even get

you up,” John told her and

several soft pillows behind her so

had her wrist attached to

actually a

she sat up with John’s help,

“Yeah,” she nodded-her throat was so

a glass of water. “Wait a moment.

myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering all her strength

felt limp and tired, and she suddenly realized that

her, holding the glass beside

asleep for three days, and you haven’t eaten anything. The

so it makes sense

him then-she was asleep for

up,” he said,

was not fatally injured, but she simply