A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 421

John wrapped his arms tightly around Cordy and carried her out of the car, but she was clenching her teeth while her whole body shook in pain.

There was something keeping her foot in place, and it hurt whenever John tried to pull her out.

He actually was afraid of using his full strength too, in fear that she had suffered some internal damage and that too much pressure would make it worse.

"Are you stuck?" he asked her very softly.

They were huddled together, so Cordy could hear his heavy breathing as well as his racing heart.

There was no hiding his worry.

"My right leg..." she murmured.

John dropped to a crouch again to check and saw that it was stuck underneath the front seat where the unconscious chauffeur remained.

He quickly smacked the man in the face-a far cry from how he was treating Cordy.

up," he snapped at

the

he came to, he quickly called out,

"I'm fine," Patrick replied.

chauffeur was not relaxing just

his seat belt by instinct, but it was

to care about the chauffeur's survival, and he snapped at the chauffeur anxiously,

the chauffeur

not your ordinary chauffeur-it would take more than average Joe to get the job from

bodyguards, which was why the selection process was more demanding than for a standard bodyguard. That was why

posture before pushing himself to his feet with every bit of

the seat upward with

grunted almost unintelligibly from the exertion, "Get

but she could not

fact, she was suddenly wondering if

bullets, and it stung when it reached her exposed