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

a thermometer and took

a worried grimace.

at the hospital. No big deal.” She had been so busy with work these days that she hadn’t taken

change of seasons, such ailments were

cup of water

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

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

on with concern,

and suggested, “Mr. Chadwick, perhaps you should rest in the guest room. I can look after Mrs. Chadwick

be contagious,

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

could you make some chicken

had always been good at

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

was caught between

as if covered by snow.

a scent about him, so

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

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