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

then complained softly, “It’s

and took Gwendolyn’s temperature

she said with a worried grimace. Tm not sure

hospital. No big

ailments were

cup of water

a specific fever reducer from the medicine

some sleep,” she said without

concern, her heart aching.

and suggested, “Mr. Chadwick, perhaps you should rest in the guest

flu could be contagious, after

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

make some chicken broth

always been good at remembering her favorites.

sleep.

was caught between dreaming and waking.

palms were on fire, yet her legs felt cold. She curled up under the covers as if covered by snow.

a scent about him, so comforting.

She closed her eyes tight, wanting to call out to him, but got trapped in

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