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.

awake.” John’s deep voice spoke beside her just

toward that familiar face of his and saw that his

cuts and bruises

Blinking, she asked,

voice was terribly raspy and her throat

he quickly added, “Don’t worry. You’re safe

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

certainly did not have the strength to resist since she could

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

soft pillows behind her so that she could lean

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

actually a

with John’s help, he

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

glass of water. “Wait a moment. I’ll

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

felt limp and tired, and she suddenly realized that

“Don’t push yourself,” John told her, holding the glass beside her lips. “You’ve

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

sustaining you, so it makes sense if you’ve

him then-she was asleep

woke up,” he said, his lips curling up into

was not fatally injured, but she simply