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

Cordy turned toward that familiar face of his and saw that his fair, handsome

cuts and bruises of

asked, “Where am

and her throat hurt a

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

not believe that ‘safe’ applied

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

help you up,” John told her and arched his back to

behind her so that

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

actually a makeshift

up with John’s help, he

she nodded-her throat was so dry it

and poured her a glass of water. “Wait a

Cordy insisted, mustering all her strength just to

and tired, and she suddenly

yourself,” John told her, holding the glass

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

it makes sense

at him then-she was

said, his lips curling up

not fatally injured, but she