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 her just then,

Cordy turned toward that familiar face of his and saw that his

in cuts and bruises of every

asked, “Where

Her voice was terribly raspy and her throat hurt a lot

but he quickly

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

certainly did not have the strength to resist since she could not even get

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

her so that she could

her wrist attached to an

a makeshift medical

sat up with John’s help,

nodded-her throat was so dry

up and poured her a glass

“I can do it myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering all her strength

tired, and she

push yourself,” John told her, holding the

for three days, and you haven’t

sustaining you, so it makes sense

then-she was asleep

up,” he said, his lips curling up into

fatally injured, but she simply refused