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

sipped, then complained

fetched a thermometer and took Gwendolyn’s temperature

a worried grimace. Tm not sure what

“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

such ailments were

cup of water

fetch a specific fever reducer from the medicine cabinet,

just need some sleep,” she said without self–pity.

looked on with concern, her heart

you should rest in the guest room. I

be contagious, after all.

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

chicken broth with salad?

had always been good at

eventually falling into a deep sleep. She could hear faint whispers near her ear,

was caught between dreaming and

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

a scent about him, so

out to him, but got trapped in

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