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 softly, “It’s

thermometer and took Gwendolyn’s

a worried grimace.

coughed twice, speaking 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

cup of water

fetch a specific fever reducer from the medicine cabinet,

just need some sleep,” she

looked on with concern, her

should rest in the guest room. I

could be contagious,

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

could you make some chicken

always been good at remembering

drifted in and out of consciousness, eventually falling into a deep sleep. She could hear faint whispers near

between dreaming and

under the covers as if covered by snow. She was lying warm back, feeling the lean body of a young man

a scent about

to call out to him, but got trapped in

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