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 severity of the situation, sir? Should

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

working on this now,

he spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation too. “She has

the other

and the medical data from her

visit.”

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

you want me to stay on the

to realize he hadn’t hung up the

See you soon.”

engaging in a way that suggested more

rather incredible.

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

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

his former lover.

here… he was

his place to

of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and collected him from his house.

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,

room.

the doctor into the house.

took a quick survey of

known these 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

over the

tried hard to mask his shock.

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

sensed his employer had lost

anxious and

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation.

work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by,

of the best general practitioners in the city.

Cummins airlifted at any time, if the doctor

necessary.”

the wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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