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.

some water.” Howard brought a glass

then complained

and took Gwendolyn’s temperature

a worried grimace. Tm not sure

twice, speaking 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

ailments were common

cup of water

reducer from

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

looked on with concern,

Chadwick, perhaps you should rest in the

be contagious, after

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

could you make some chicken

been good at remembering her favorites.

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

was caught between dreaming and

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

had a scent about him, so comforting.

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

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