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.

felt like she had slept for a long while to

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

and saw that his fair, handsome cheeks were covered in

she asked,

terribly raspy and her throat hurt a

quickly

applied when she was on the

certainly did not have the strength to resist since she could not

his back to gently pick her up, and he placed several soft pillows behind her so that she could

was then that she saw she had her wrist attached to an IV drip and the room was actually a

sat up with John's help,

nodded-her throat was so

a glass of water. "Wait a moment. I'll help

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

and tired, and she suddenly realized that

you haven't eaten anything. The IV was the only thing sustaining you, so it

at him then-she was