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.

is it?” Jason asked irritably.

the severity of the situation, sir? Should I instead call

an ambulance?”

an intelligent question and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he

don’t think so.”

this

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

doctor on the other line,” Terrence

and the medical data

visit.”

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

want me to stay on the

to realize he hadn’t hung up the phone. “No.”

sir. See

Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business

rather incredible.

asked to predict these events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million

here he was. In a shanty of an apartment,

his

here… he

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

of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke

his employer did not want Grace to discover his true identity.

should retreat without being seen. But when the

room.

said, ushering the doctor into the

quick survey

office. The kitchenette was perhaps ten feet long with enough room for the sink, stove, refrigerator.

over the sink.

tried hard to mask

a look at her,” Jason said. “What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason stood beside the bed.

sensed his employer had lost his usual calmness.

anxious and his posture

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence

work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of

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

Cummins airlifted at any time, if the doctor deems it

necessary.”

nodded, but his eyes still had the wild look

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