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.

a glass to her parched lips,

sipped, then complained softly, “It’s

fetched a thermometer and took Gwendolyn’s

degrees,” she said with a worried grimace. Tm not sure what medicine to give

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 proper

of seasons, such ailments were common in

cup of water

from the medicine cabinet, swallowing it with a gulp

need some sleep,” she said

on with concern, her heart aching.

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

be

“NO,

I’ll stay

here w

some chicken broth with salad? Something to whether

always been good

deep sleep. She

caught between

were on fire, yet her legs felt cold. She curled up under the covers as if

a scent about

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

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