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

sipped, then complained softly, “It’s bitter.”

and took Gwendolyn’s temperature

with a worried grimace. Tm not sure what medicine

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 she hadn’t taken

seasons, such ailments were common in the

cup of water

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

some sleep,” she said without

with concern, her heart aching.

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

be contagious,

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

chicken broth with

had always been good at remembering her favorites.

taking her medicine, Gwendolyn drifted in and out of consciousness, eventually falling into a deep sleep. She could hear faint whispers near her ear, the sound of the door opening and

was caught between dreaming and

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

scent about him, so

eyes tight, wanting to call out to him, but

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