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.

slept for a long while

beside her just then, quietly and

of his and saw that his fair, handsome cheeks were covered in cuts and bruises

asked,

and her throat hurt a

replied, but he quickly added,

applied

have the strength to resist since she

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

her wrist attached to an IV

up with John's help,

nodded-her throat was so dry it

got up and poured her a glass of water. "Wait a moment.

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

she suddenly realized that

John told her, holding the glass beside her lips. "You've been asleep for three days, and you haven't eaten anything. The

stared at him then-she was asleep for three