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 irritably.

the situation,

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

on this now,

up, he spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation too. “She has a fever. It’s high.”

the other line,” Terrence said. “I’ll

data from her earlier

visit.”

brow and wrung out the washcloth

you want me to stay on

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

See

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

rather incredible.

Not in a million years would Mr. Reed act like

here he was. In a shanty of an apartment,

his former lover.

Jason wasn’t just here… he was

realization was one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his emotional attachments-or

the Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and collected

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

in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside and gestured

room.

he said, ushering the doctor

survey of the

refrigerator. A small dinette table for two was

one over

to mask his shock.

calling her just now but I

had lost his usual

anxious and his posture was tense.

as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

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

of the best general practitioners

time, if the

necessary.”

but his eyes still had the wild look of a

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