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.

brought a glass to her parched

sipped, then complained softly,

a thermometer and

worried grimace.

reducer. It’s probably just the flu going around at the hospital. No big deal.” She had

ailments were

cup of water

from the medicine cabinet, swallowing it with a gulp

need some sleep,”

on with concern, her heart aching.

turned to Howard and suggested, “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 to

always been good at

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

caught between

legs felt cold. She curled up under the covers as if covered by snow. She was

a scent about him,

closed her eyes tight, wanting to call out

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