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 asked irritably.

of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

annoyance slightly. “No,”

don’t think so.”

on this

doubt any doctor they called would want to

doctor on the other line,” Terrence

medical data from her earlier

visit.”

Jason smoothed Grace’s brow and wrung out the washcloth to

me to stay on

was too busy with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung

See you

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

rather incredible.

events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not

he was. In a shanty

killed his former

just here…

his place to question or inform Mr.

services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke

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

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

room.

said, ushering the doctor

took a quick survey of

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

one over

hard to mask

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

employer had lost his

was anxious and his posture

Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood

best general practitioners in the city. And we can have

Cummins airlifted at any time, if

necessary.”

but his eyes still had the wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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