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

situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

question and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly.

don’t think so.”

this now,

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

doctor on the other

data from her earlier

visit.”

brow and wrung out the washcloth to cool down

want me to stay on

with Grace to realize he hadn’t

See you

since Mr. Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation. And given this woman’s background and what had transpired surrounding Mr.

rather incredible.

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

a shanty of

his former

Jason wasn’t just here…

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

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

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

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

room.

the doctor

quick survey of the room.

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

over the sink.

to mask

with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake

sensed his employer had lost his

anxious and his

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for

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

of the best general practitioners in the

Cummins airlifted at any time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

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

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