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

of the situation, sir? Should I

an ambulance?”

question and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he said. “No

don’t think so.”

working on this

spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want

have a doctor on the other line,” Terrence

data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

brow and wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face and

to stay

Grace to realize he hadn’t

sir. See

in the time 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. Reed’s fiancee’s

rather incredible.

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

In a shanty of an

his former

here… he was present.

keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his emotional attachments-or lack

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

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

seen. But when the door was opened, Jason

room.

the doctor into the house.

took a quick survey

the sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette table for two was at the center. One armoire.

over the sink.

to

her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason stood beside the bed.

his employer had lost his

and

briefly as if

checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on

Terrence said gently. “Dr. Raunfield is one of the best

any time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

had the wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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