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 asked

situation,

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

working on this now,

doubt any doctor

other

data

visit.”

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

me to stay on the line, sir?”

with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung

sir. See you

Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr.

a shanty of an apartment, with

killed his former

just here…

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

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

knocking on the door. After all, his employer did not

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

room.

the doctor into the

quick survey

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

one over the

hard to mask his shock.

calling her just now but I

had lost his usual calmness.

expression was anxious and

briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking

“Dr. Raunfield is one of the best general practitioners in

time, if the doctor

necessary.”

the wild look of a man

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