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.

voice spoke beside her just

face of

were covered in cuts and bruises of

Blinking, she asked, “Where

Her voice was terribly raspy and her throat hurt a lot

quickly added,

‘safe’ applied when she

the strength to

John told her and arched his back to

her so

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

a makeshift medical

up with John’s help, he asked,

nodded-her throat was

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

mustering all her strength just to

tired, and she suddenly realized that breathing

yourself,” John told her, holding the glass beside her lips. “You’ve

for three days, and you haven’t eaten anything. The IV was the only

sustaining you, so it makes

him then-she was asleep for three

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

but she simply refused to