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 asked

of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

annoyance slightly. “No,” he said. “No ambulance.”

don’t think so.”

on this now,

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

have a doctor on the other

data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

out the washcloth to cool down her face and

stay on the line, sir?”

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

sir. See you soon.”

Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more

rather incredible.

‘No. Not in a million years would

In a shanty of an apartment, with a

his

just here… he was present.

to himself. It was not his place to

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

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

being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside

room.

said, ushering the doctor into the

survey of

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

one over the

tried hard to mask his

kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason stood

his employer had lost his usual

anxious and

as

checking Grace’s vitals, all while

“Dr. Raunfield is one of the best general

Cummins airlifted at any time,

necessary.”

his eyes still had the wild look of a man about to come

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