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 asked

situation, sir? Should

an ambulance?”

and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he said. “No ambulance.” Then: “I

don’t think so.”

on this now, sir.”

explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation too. “She

the other line,” Terrence said. “I’ll relay

data from

visit.”

the washcloth to

want me to stay

busy with Grace to realize he hadn’t

See

Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation. And

rather incredible.

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

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

killed his

just here… he was

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

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

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

retreat without being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside and gestured him into the small

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into the

quick survey 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.

the one over the sink.

to mask

calling her just

his employer had lost his usual

anxious and his posture

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence

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

Raunfield is one of the best general practitioners

any time, if the

necessary.”

wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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