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 then,

that familiar face of his and saw that his fair, handsome

covered in cuts and

Blinking, she asked, “Where

and her throat hurt

John replied, but he quickly added, “Don’t worry. You’re

‘safe’ applied when she was

to resist since she could not

told her and arched his back to

her so that

then that she saw she had her wrist attached to

a

sat up with John’s help,

she nodded-her throat was

John got up and poured her a glass of water. “Wait

myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering all

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

her, holding

haven’t eaten anything.

it makes sense if you’ve

him then-she was asleep

up,” he said,

fatally injured, but she