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

is the severity of the situation,

an ambulance?”

lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly.

don’t think so.”

this now,

no doubt any doctor they called would want to know

a doctor on the other line,”

the medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

the washcloth to cool down her face and

you want me to stay

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

See you

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

rather incredible.

Not in a

he was. In a shanty of an apartment,

his former

here… he was

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

services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and collected him from his

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

seen. But when the

room.

he said, ushering the doctor into the

took a quick survey

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 and blankets on

the one over the

to mask his shock.

at her,” Jason said. “What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just now

employer had

anxious and his

glanced at Terrence briefly as if

all while Jason stood by,

“Dr. Raunfield is one of the best general practitioners in the city. And we

at any time,

necessary.”

still had the wild look of

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