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

of his and saw that

were covered in cuts and

Blinking, she asked, “Where am

was terribly raspy and her throat hurt a lot

John replied, but he quickly

that ‘safe’

the strength to resist since she could

John told her and arched his back

her so that she

her wrist attached to an IV drip

a

she sat up with John’s help,

she nodded-her throat was so dry

up and poured her a glass of

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

tired, and she

told her, holding the

haven’t eaten anything.

it makes sense if you’ve lost your

him then-she was asleep

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

Cordy was not fatally injured, but she simply