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

then complained softly, “It’s

thermometer and took Gwendolyn’s temperature

said with a worried grimace. Tm

around at the hospital. No big deal.” She had been so busy with work these days

ailments were

cup of water

fetch a specific fever reducer from

sleep,” she said

concern, her heart

“Mr. Chadwick, perhaps you should rest in the guest room. I can look after

be contagious, after all.

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

chicken broth with salad? Something

had always been good

and out of consciousness, eventually falling into a deep sleep.

between dreaming and

curled up under the covers as if covered by snow. She was lying warm

scent about him, so comforting.

out to him, but got trapped in a

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