A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 65

Cordy hesitated for a moment, but she quickly followed John into his car too.

“Miss!” One of the police stopped them. “We need you to come with us to the precinct for testimony.”

“Vince, go with the police. Walter will drive you back.”

“Alright. You should go, Ms. Sachs,” Vince quickly said.

Meanwhile, Cordy and Randy helped him into his Maybach.

The car drove straight to the best private hospital in North City, with Randy riding shotgun and calling the Levines’ family doctor.

Cordy was glancing at John from time to time, who was reclining against his seat, his eyes closed and his face turning ever paler.

Where did the steel pipe hit?

Did it break bones?

Rupture organs…?

Cordy did not dare to go any further. She kept her eyes on the car’s GPS, wanting to reach the hospital right then.

it took them two

doctors in white coats waiting, and nurses

Cordy clearly

Did it hurt?!

clenched, and she followed the doctors as they wheeled John to the emergency

alright,” John was still assuring her just before

lip, feeling a

since he returned from that business trip, and she had

only talked to

but eventually seemed to become accustomed to her cold shoulder, and he

come to visit her every other day with Richard, and she presumed it was just to satisfy Richard’s reliance toward

was why his sudden appearance today caught her completely

stared nervously at the locked doors of

was three hours later when the doors opened again and John was wheeled out, escorted

rushed toward them immediately, asking worriedly, “Doctors, how is he?”

nearby,

damaged, and there’s a light fracture on a rib on the right. There is light numbness to his kidneys as well,

to four weeks of bed rest. We will monitor his

heaved a loud sigh of relief. Thank

herself as well.