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.

carefully placing her onto the soft mattress in the master bedroom. Josie’s mind raced as the haunting memories of that

her hand firmly. He scorned. “I have no

initial shock subsided, but an underlying discomfort persisted.

bedroom before swiftly going down the

clicked shut, catching whiffs of his lingering scent that danced in her nostrils. Her head spun relentlessly as

for not taking the medicine that Dexter had sent earlier. The drip’s

might be coming down with a cold. Her eyelids were heavy, and she slowly drifted away to

found Josie curled up and asleep. He shook her

open up,” said Dexter as he

Josie complied.

to her wrist, where scars from the previous

needles for

gingerly prepared and administered the medicine to her as her

into the room with a bowl of hot soup

Josie’s mouth with a