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.

got a high fever. I’ll give her something to bring it down. Also… Mrs. Lowry’s been running on

subtext. Megan had been buming the candle at

to be

Megan was g

injection, and Dr. Katherine advised, “Best she

nodded and motioned for the housekeeper to escort the doctor out.

housekeeper, “Prepare a bowl of chicken soup, let it cool,

stood Bianca, carrying a bundle of Sullivan’s suits and shirts that she

on her face as she saw Megan in

clearly, she and Sullivan had shared a bed. Even if the room

Bianca and her bundle, frowned slightly. “Just leave them on the couch and

Is for Sullivan

of these personal details pretending, if only in her mind, that she was Mrs. Lowry. But Sullivan

felt such animosity towards Megan yet was indifferent, even accommodating, to Cressida. Perhaps deep down, she knew

for the most beautiful. Sullivan was no

glanced at the woman still sleeping in his bed. He pinched her cheek gently, gradually applying more pressure

the living room, eyeing the freshly laundered clothes. They were clean, but the solvent scent was

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