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 situation, sir? Should I instead

an ambulance?”

was an intelligent question and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he

don’t think so.”

working on this

doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation too. “She has a fever.

the other line,” Terrence said. “I’ll

events and the medical data

visit.”

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

me to stay on the line, sir?”

busy with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung up the phone. “No.”

sir. See

boss in the time since Mr. Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation.

rather incredible.

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

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

killed his former

here… he was

would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or

of the best physicians in the city. Then

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

being seen. But when the door

room.

said, ushering the doctor

quick survey of

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

one over the sink.

tried hard to mask

with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason stood beside

employer had lost

anxious and

as if

work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of

the best general practitioners in the city. And we can

airlifted at any time, if the doctor deems it

necessary.”

nodded, but his eyes still had the wild look of a man about to

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