My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

Chapter 84

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.

it?” Jason asked

the situation, sir? Should

an ambulance?”

Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he said. “No ambulance.” Then: “I

don’t think so.”

this now,

to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details

doctor on the other line,” Terrence

data from

visit.”

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

you want me to stay

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

sir. See you

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

rather incredible.

said, ‘No. Not in a million years would

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

killed his former lover.

here…

that 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 thereof.

services of one of the best physicians in the

all, his

when the door was opened, Jason

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into the

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

one over

hard to mask his

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

sensed his employer had lost his usual calmness.

expression was anxious and his posture

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation.

checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood

is one of the best general practitioners

at any time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

nodded, but his eyes still had the wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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