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 irritably.

of the situation, sir? Should I instead

an ambulance?”

Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,”

don’t think so.”

on this

up, he spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor

the other line,” Terrence

data from her earlier

visit.”

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

you want me to stay on the line,

Grace to realize he

sir. See

noticed many changes in his boss in the time since Mr. Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not in

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

killed his former

Jason wasn’t just here… he was

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

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

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

should retreat without being seen. But when the

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into

a quick survey

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 over the sink.

tried hard to mask

I kept calling her just now but

sensed his employer had

and his posture

as if for confirmation. Terrence

while Jason stood by, looking

best general practitioners in the city. And we can have

time, if the

necessary.”

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

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