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.

it?” Jason asked

of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

was an intelligent question and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly.

don’t think so.”

working on this now,

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

the other line,” Terrence said. “I’ll

the medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

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

me to stay on the

Grace to realize he hadn’t hung

See you

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

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not

was. In a shanty of an apartment, with

his

Jason wasn’t just here…

It was not his place to question or inform Mr.

Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the city.

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

seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside

room.

he said, ushering the doctor into

quick survey of

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

over the

to mask his shock.

her just now but I couldn’t

employer had lost his usual calmness.

anxious and

at Terrence briefly as if

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

the best

any time, if the

necessary.”

still had the wild look of a man about to

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