Chapter 84

That night, Jason was awakened by Grace’s muffled scream.

She tossed and turned and mumbled in her sleep.

He couldn’t make out what she was saying but her pained

whimpers and trembling made him think she was in fear or

pain.

“Sister,” he called to her. But she didn’t respond.

When he touched her head, he frowned. Her head was hot,

and her slight body was slicked with sweat.

Jason hurriedly wrung a towel soaked in cool water and wiped

Grace’s forehead.

But her eyes remained shut and she was still muttering something.

No matter how he called her, she wouldn’t wake up. A flash of panic crept over him. He didn’t know what to do-and he hated feeling inept. He hated it almost as much as realizing how worried he was about her. Which meant he was in way

over his head.

No. This was just a reaction given her medical history and

their circumstances.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

He took out his phone and immediately dialed Terrence. “Get

me a doctor. And send them to the apartment.”

“Now?” Terrence asked.

“Yes, now,” Jason ordered.

“Yes, sir.” There was a pause.

it?” Jason asked

is the severity of the situation, sir? Should I

an ambulance?”

Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he said. “No ambulance.” Then: “I

don’t think so.”

working on this

where Jason normally would’ve hung up, he spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more

the other line,” Terrence said. “I’ll relay

and the medical data from her

visit.”

smoothed Grace’s brow and wrung out the washcloth to cool

to stay on the line, sir?”

realize

See

Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation. And given this woman’s background and what had transpired surrounding Mr. Reed’s fiancee’s death, it

rather incredible.

Not in a million years would

here he was. In a shanty of an apartment, with a

killed his former lover.

wasn’t just here… he

was one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform

the services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke

door. After all, his employer did not want Grace to

to the side in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the

room.

he said, ushering the doctor

a quick survey of the

for the sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette table for two was at the center. One armoire. A single bed. A pile of pillows and blankets on the floor. One door, presumably to a bathroom. No

the one over the sink.

hard to

wrong with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason

sensed his employer had lost his usual calmness.

anxious and his posture was tense.

at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence

while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of

said gently. “Dr. Raunfield is one of the best general practitioners in the city. And we

airlifted at any time, if

necessary.”

nodded, but his eyes still had the wild look of a man

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