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.

Howard brought a glass to her parched

then complained

and took Gwendolyn’s

grimace. Tm not sure what medicine to give

with difficulty, “Just some fever reducer. It’s probably just the flu going around at the hospital. No big deal.” She had been so busy with work these days that

change of seasons, such ailments were common in the

cup of water

instructed Marina to fetch a specific fever reducer from the medicine cabinet, swallowing

just need some sleep,” she said

with concern,

should rest in the guest room. I can look after

flu could be contagious, after

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

some chicken

good at remembering her favorites.

consciousness, eventually falling into a deep sleep. She

between

the covers as if covered by snow. She was lying warm back, feeling

about him, so

to call out to

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