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.

a long while to the point that she could not wake

spoke beside her just then, quietly

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

she asked, "Where am

was terribly raspy and her

but he quickly

Cordy did not believe that 'safe' applied when she was

not have the strength to resist since she could not

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

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

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

nodded-her throat was so dry

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

can do it myself," Cordy insisted, mustering

she suddenly realized that breathing

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

stared at him then-she