My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

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.

Jason

situation, sir? Should I instead call

an ambulance?”

lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he said. “No ambulance.”

don’t think so.”

working on this now, sir.”

no doubt any doctor they called would want

a doctor on the other line,” Terrence

data from her earlier

visit.”

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

me to stay on the line,

was too busy with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung up the

sir. See you soon.”

boss in the time since Mr. Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation. And given this

rather incredible.

said, ‘No. Not in a million

was. In a shanty of an apartment, with a woman

killed his

here… he was present.

realization was one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his emotional attachments-or lack

used the Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the

when knocking on the door. After all, his employer did not want Grace

kept to the side in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into

quick survey of the room.

these studio apartments were small. But this was a fraction of the size of Mr. Reed’s office. The kitchenette was perhaps ten feet long with enough room 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

the one over the

tried hard to

wrong with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t

employer had lost his

was anxious and his posture was

glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

went to work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood

Raunfield is one of the best general practitioners in the city. And we can have

any time, if the doctor

necessary.”

still had the wild look of a man about to