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

situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

on this now, sir.”

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.

the other

medical data from her earlier

visit.”

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

stay on the line, sir?”

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

sir. See

noticed 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 business obligation. And given this woman’s background and what had transpired surrounding Mr. Reed’s fiancee’s death, it was

rather incredible.

Not in a million years

shanty of an apartment, with

his former

here…

that realization was one he would keep to himself. It was not his

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

careful when knocking on the door. After all, his employer did not want Grace to discover his true

being seen. But when the

room.

the doctor into the

quick survey of the

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 table for two was at the center. One

over the

tried hard to mask

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

sensed his employer had lost his usual

and his posture

Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

all while Jason stood by, looking on the verge

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

any time, if

necessary.”

had the wild look of a man about to

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