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 her just

of his

cuts and bruises of every

she asked, “Where

and her

quickly added, “Don’t worry. You’re

did not believe that ‘safe’ applied when

the strength to resist since she could

John told her and

behind her so that she

was then that she saw she had her wrist attached to an IV drip and the

actually a

she sat up with John’s help,

she nodded-her throat was so

her a glass of water. “Wait a moment. I’ll help

it myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering all

felt limp and tired, and she suddenly realized that breathing was

holding the glass beside her lips.

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

so it makes sense

then-she

said, his lips curling up into a

but she simply refused