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

the situation, sir? Should I instead

an ambulance?”

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

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 would want to know more

a doctor on the other line,”

and the medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face and neck

stay on the line,

with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung

See

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.

these events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would

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

killed his

here… he was

he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform

used the Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and collected him from

his employer did not want Grace

should retreat without being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside and gestured him

room.

the

survey

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

one over the

tried hard to

“What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason stood

had lost his usual calmness.

expression was anxious and his posture was

as if for

all while

“Dr. Raunfield is one of the best general

airlifted at any time, if the

necessary.”

his eyes still had the wild look of a man

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