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.

John’s deep voice spoke beside her just then,

of his and saw

cuts and bruises of every

asked,

was terribly raspy and her throat hurt

replied, but he quickly

not believe that ‘safe’ applied when

the strength to resist since she could not even get

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

behind her so that she could

saw she had her wrist attached to an

a

she sat up with John’s help,

nodded-her throat was so

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

insisted, mustering

and tired, and she suddenly realized that breathing was actually

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

three days, and you haven’t eaten

so it makes sense if

him then-she

“Fortunately, you woke up,” he said,

injured, but she simply refused to wake