Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 27

Down was just breaking as Sullivan stirred awake

It was the heat that did it. He found himself clinging to a human furnace, soaking his pajama top with sweat.

Blinking his eyes open, he saw Megan’s unnaturally red cheeks.

He touched her forehead and recoiled at its burning temperature.

Jumping out of bed, Sullivan hurried downstairs and instructed the housekeeper, “Call Dr. Katherine, have her come over right away.”

The housekeeper, looking anxious, asked, “Are you feeling unwell, sir?”

Sullivan was halfway back up the stairs when he paused, “Tell her Madam has a fever, and it’s urgent.”

Within half an hour, Dr. Katherine arrived

The bedroom was pristine, the traces of last night’s intimacy gone.

bring it down. Also… Mrs. Lowry’s been running on empty. She needs

Megan had been buming the candle at both

be so

Megan was g

injection, and Dr. Katherine advised, “Best she

the housekeeper to escort the doctor

left, Sullivan called out, mistaking the returning footsteps for the housekeeper,

carrying a bundle of Sullivan’s suits and shirts that she had taken for dry cleaning the week before and

registered on her face as she saw Megan in bed.

was back? And clearly, she and Sullivan had shared a bed. Even if the

them on the couch and go. And from now on, you

Is for Sullivan

these personal details pretending, if only in her mind, that she was Mrs.

she felt such animosity towards Megan yet was indifferent, even accommodating,

the most beautiful. Sullivan was no

in his bed. He pinched her cheek gently, gradually applying more pressure until she turned away with a grimace.

room, eyeing the freshly laundered clothes. They were clean, but the solvent scent was off–putting. More importantly, he