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.

for a long while to the point

awake." John's deep voice spoke beside her just then, quietly

turned toward that familiar face of his and saw that his fair, handsome cheeks were covered in cuts and bruises of every

she asked, "Where am

raspy and her throat hurt a

he quickly added, "Don't worry. You're safe

applied when she was on

to resist since she could

and arched his back to gently pick her up, and he placed several soft

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

she sat up with John's help, he asked,

nodded-her throat was so

up and poured her a glass of

myself," Cordy insisted, mustering all her strength just to raise her

felt limp and tired, and she suddenly realized that breathing was

glass beside her lips. "You've been asleep for three days, and you haven't eaten anything. The IV was the only thing sustaining

then-she was asleep