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

the severity of the situation, sir? Should I instead call

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

on this now,

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

the other line,”

the medical data from her earlier

visit.”

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

stay

busy with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung up the phone.

See

Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation. And

rather incredible.

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

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

his former lover.

wasn’t just here… he was

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

services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and

the door. After all, his

side in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the door was

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into

a quick survey

studio apartments were small. But this was 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 armoire. A single bed. A pile of pillows and blankets on the

one over the sink.

hard to mask his

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

sensed his employer had

anxious and

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

while Jason stood by,

one of the best general practitioners in the city. And we

at any time, if the doctor deems it

necessary.”

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

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