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

is the severity of the situation,

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

on this now, sir.”

offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more

have a doctor on the other line,” Terrence

events and the medical data from her

visit.”

out the washcloth to cool down her face and neck again.

want me to stay on the line,

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

sir. See you

in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation. And given this woman’s background and what had

rather incredible.

Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in

was. In a shanty of

killed his

here… he was present.

to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed

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

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

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

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor

survey of the

known these studio apartments were small. But this was a fraction of the size of Mr. Reed’s office. The kitchenette was perhaps ten feet long with enough room for the sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette

one over

tried hard to

said. “What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her

had lost his

expression was anxious and his posture

briefly as

while

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

any time, if the

necessary.”

nodded, but his eyes still had the wild look of a man about to come unglued.

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