Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 473 Although she wasn't as thorough as Hull in undressing her, she hadn't stripped him entirely. At least she left his boxers on.

Anyway, it was as good as nothing.

Susanna awkwardly glanced at him and said, "The fever wouldn't come down, so I had to..."

Hull tightened his grip on her wrist. His eyes, bloodshot from the fever, stared at her with a wild, almost primal intensity.

Susanna swallowed hard. She looked down and murmured, "I tried calling your people but couldn't reach anyone."

If she had managed to get through, things wouldn't have come to this.

"Please, let go of me," Susanna said, flustered.

He wouldn't think she was trying to take advantage of him, would he? She wasn't that sort of person.

Hull slowly released her. Probably overwhelmed by his fever, he soon fell back asleep on the bed.

Worried the fever might cause complications, Susanna wiped him down three times before his temperature finally stabilized.

right there by his

following morning, waking only when

me," Barnaby's voice came

Susanna asleep by his side. She must have tossed and turned a lot in

I'm

pushed the

soon as he entered, he

over the woman

woman His room isn't somewhere we can waltz into anymore. Why didn't he say anything when I knocked? Now, he's giving

stammered, “I knocked. I knocked

but the single word he uttered was

I'm out.

hurried out of the room, carefully closing the door behind

from caring for him, she hadn't even noticed the water still by the bed. When Hull gently lifted her onto the bed, she didn't

out and tugged the blanket up snugly

...

saw Silas come in and quickly approached him, whispering, "I'm telling you,

look, his expression suggesting Barnaby figure things out