Blind Date Turned Proposal (Josie and Dexter)

Chapter 376 Fever

She closed her eyes momentarily and met his gaze. “I returned to retrieve my belongings,” she stated firmly.

Dexter ascended the stairs and stopped before her. “Just tell me what you need, and I’ll bring it to you,” he assured succinctly. There was a menacing intensity in his gaze.

Josie trembled as he drew closer but shook off the tremor and asserted, “My laptop.”

“Where are your keys?”

Little did she know that Dexter was informed of her arrival in Mason Garden.

Her head throbbed, and she retorted. Forget about it.”

As she turned, her wrist was seized. “Mason Garden isn’t a place you can simply stroll in as you like,” a voice chided.

The grip on her wrist was intense. Her body lurched backward and fell into Dexter’s arms. It was a moment frozen in time.

Dexter was slightly agitated as Josie’s complexion grew unusually pale.

creases on his forehead deepened as he swiftly carried her, carefully placing her onto the soft mattress in the master bedroom. Josie’s mind raced as the haunting memories of that fateful night resurfaced. “Get out!”

wrestled against his grasp, but he held her hand firmly. He scorned. “I have no intention of having sex with a sick woman.”

initial shock subsided, but an underlying

rose abruptly, pacing the bedroom before

soft bed as the balcony door clicked shut, catching whiffs of his lingering scent that danced in her nostrils. Her head spun relentlessly as if being pulled

the medicine that Dexter had sent earlier. The

pounding headache and sore eyes, Josie realized she might be coming down with a cold.

the medical kit and found Josie curled up and asleep. He shook her in panic, Josie, wake up.”

up,” said Dexter as he slid a thermometer into her

Josie complied.

her wrist, where scars from the previous injection

needles

and administered the medicine to her as

with a bowl of hot soup and carefully served, “Sir,

gently wiped Josie’s mouth with a tissue and muttered,