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 irritably.

severity of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

working on this now, sir.”

normally would’ve hung up, he spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they

have a doctor on the other line,” Terrence said.

events and the medical data

visit.”

the washcloth to cool down her face and neck again.

want me to stay on the line,

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

sir. See you soon.”

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

rather incredible.

said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr. Reed act like

here he was. In a shanty

his former

here… he

would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his

best physicians

especially careful when knocking on the door. After all, his employer did not want

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

room.

he said, ushering the doctor into the

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 floor. One

one over the

hard to

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

employer had lost his usual

anxious and his

Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence

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

Raunfield is one of the best

time, if the

necessary.”

but his eyes still had the wild look of a

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