Chapter 264

“Mrs. Chadwick, why are you napping here?” Marina asked with concem, noticing an unnatural flush on her cheeks. She reached out to touch her forehead.

It was burning up!

“Mrs. Chadwick, wake up,” Marina urged, supporting the groggy Gwendolyn. “Let me get you to bed,”

As they made their way through the hallway. Howard emerged from the study, a frown creasing his forehead. “What’s the matter?”

“Mrs. Chadwick has a fever”

“Let me take her.” Howard took Gwendolyn into his arms with ease, feeling the searing heat from her body.

He laid his wife on their king–sized bed and called the family doctor to come

mediately.

Gwendolyn was buming up, her lips cracked and dry, her breath hot and weak, She opened her eyes with difficulty and called out in a hoarse whisper, “Mr. Chadwick.”

After working a shift that had stretched into the wee hours of the moming, she just wanted to rest t and succumbed to sleep on the

couch

Once asleep, she lost consciousness.

a glass to her parched lips,

sipped, then complained

and took

worried grimace. Tm not sure what medicine to

“Just some fever reducer. It’s probably just the flu going around at the hospital.

of seasons, such ailments were common in the

cup of water

specific fever reducer from the medicine cabinet, swallowing it with a gulp

some sleep,” she said without self–pity.

concern, her heart

Howard and suggested, “Mr. Chadwick, perhaps you should

could be contagious, after

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

could you make some chicken broth with salad?

always been good at remembering her favorites.

of consciousness, eventually falling into a deep sleep. She

caught between dreaming and

felt cold. She curled up under the covers as if covered by snow. She was lying warm back, feeling the

scent about him, so comforting.

tight, wanting to call out to him, but got

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