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

situation, sir? Should I

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

working on this now,

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 details of the situation too. “She has a

doctor on the other

data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

out the washcloth to cool down her face and neck

me to stay

with Grace to realize he hadn’t

sir. See you

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 business

rather incredible.

predict these events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr. Reed act like this.

In a shanty of an apartment,

his former lover.

here… he was present.

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

of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and collected him from his house.

knocking on the door. After all, his employer did

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

room.

the doctor into

a quick survey of

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 one over the sink.

hard to mask his

“What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just now

sensed his employer had lost his

was anxious and his posture

Terrence briefly as if for

Raunfield immediately went to work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on

the best general practitioners in the city. And we

any time, if

necessary.”

still had the wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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