Chapter 113 Late At Night

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Nathaniel stayed up late in his study, poring over documents before returning to his bedroom.

A subtle scent of flowers and fruit lingered in the air. I was the aroma of a woman who had just finished bathing. His eyes landed on the bed, where Christina had buried herself under the covers, with only her head sticking out.

He walked over and lifted the blanket, whispering, “Silly girl, won’t you have trouble breathing like this…”

Suddenly, his words were caught in his throat.

Christina’s cheeks were flushed with a rosy hue, and her nose was tinged with a pink shade. She looked like a ripened tomato.

Her long eyelashes trembled as she struggled to open her eyes. Despite her blurred vision, the man’s handsome features remained strikingly clear.

Christina struggled to speak due to the sharp pain in her throat. “Umm…”

haniel immediately covered her burning forehead, his eyebrows furrowed with concern. “It’s very

hot. You have a fever.”

“Hmm, seems like it,” Christina whispered weakly. It was no wonder that she felt tired and drowsy earlier. Yet, the more she dozed off, the more exhausted she became.

Nathaniel quickly grabbed his phone and called their family doctor, Daryl Zadoff. “Come over right away.”

After hanging up, he sat on the edge of the bed and lifted Christina into his arms. Her body felt like a burning furnace, radiating intense heat that warmed his chest.

In fact, she was so weak from the prolonged fever that she looked like a wilted flower nestled in his

armis.

Christina’s breathing was shallow and delicate, evoking a strong protective instinct in those around her.

instructed the housekeeper outside, “Get me some

the tranquil Scenic Garden Manor suddenly sprang to life, and everyone began

Sebastian hurried over to

after receiving Daryl’s call, thinking it was Nathaniel who was feeling unwell. It wasn’t until he arrived that he realized Christina

mad on the phone. I was afraid something was wrong, so I figured it was better to have you come, just to be

are you standing there? Did I ask you to come here to chat?”

hurriedly

Daryl’s eyes fell upon the girl cradled in Nathaniel’s embrace, he couldn’t help but gasp. Her beauty was breathtaking, enough to

her temperature, Mr.

response, Nathaniel glared at him. “Not yet.”

Nathaniel’s ability to care for a patient as

her temperature

Nathaniel took her

and proud

Nathaniel once again touched Christina’s forehead; his expression

he rose abruptly from his seat, the man’s towering figure

anger.

Daryl. “Why hasn’t her fever gone

all, it was common knowledge that it would take time for

losing his

for the medicine to take effect. The fever should subside half an hour later,” Sebastian

to be absorbed into the body,” Daryl added, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

collar and instructed,

that, Sebastian and Daryl quickly left the

and let out a sigh of relief

taking her medicine, she was besieged by a relentless wave of heat

and sweat.

desert and buried under layer upon

hot…” she

vigilant watch at the young woman’s bedside; his eyes fixated on the gentle slope of her ivory skin and the enticing curves of her figure as she pulled

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