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.

“You’re awake.” John’s deep voice spoke beside her just then, quietly and

Cordy turned toward that familiar face of his and saw

were covered in cuts and

she asked, “Where am

and her throat

“Rocktown,” John replied, but he quickly added,

believe that ‘safe’

strength to resist since

help you up,” John told her and arched his back to gently pick her

her so that she

her wrist attached to an

actually a makeshift medical

After she sat up with

she nodded-her throat was so dry

John got up and poured her a glass

it myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering

and she suddenly realized that breathing was

holding the

three days, and you haven’t eaten anything. The IV was the only

you, so it makes sense

at him then-she was asleep for

he said, his lips curling up into a

was not fatally injured, but