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

scorned.

initial shock subsided, but

abruptly, pacing the bedroom before swiftly going

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

of regret washed over her for not taking the medicine that Dexter had sent earlier. The

headache and sore eyes, Josie realized she might be coming down with a cold. Her eyelids were heavy, and she slowly drifted away

found Josie curled up

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

Josie

wrist, where scars from the

more needles

to

came into the room with a bowl of hot soup and carefully

wiped Josie’s mouth with a tissue