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

the situation, sir? Should I instead call

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

working on this

doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation

a doctor on the other line,” Terrence said.

events and the medical data from

visit.”

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

me to stay on

realize he hadn’t hung up the phone.

See

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

rather incredible.

predict these events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a

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

his former

here…

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

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

was especially careful when knocking on the door. After all, his employer

seen. But when the

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into the

took a quick survey

sink, stove, refrigerator.

one over

hard to mask his

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

employer had lost his usual calmness.

was anxious and

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation.

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

one of the best general practitioners

at any time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

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

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