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.

spoke beside

familiar face of his and saw that his fair,

were covered in cuts and bruises of every

she asked,

and her throat

he quickly added,

Cordy did not believe that ‘safe’ applied when she was on the

to resist since she could not even get

John told her and arched his back to gently

soft pillows behind her so

she saw she had her wrist attached to an IV drip and the room

a makeshift

After she sat up with John’s help, he asked,

“Yeah,” she nodded-her throat was so dry

John got up and poured her a glass of water. “Wait a moment. I’ll

it myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering all her strength just to raise her

and tired, and she suddenly

push yourself,” John told her, holding the glass

you haven’t eaten anything. The IV

makes sense if you’ve

stared at him then-she was

“Fortunately, you woke up,” he said, his

Cordy was not fatally injured, but she simply