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

severity of the situation, sir? Should

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

this

Jason normally would’ve hung 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.”

a doctor on the other line,” Terrence said. “I’ll

medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

Jason smoothed Grace’s brow and wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face

me to stay on

was too busy with Grace to realize he

sir. See you

way that suggested

rather incredible.

asked to predict these events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr.

shanty of an apartment, with

killed his former lover.

wasn’t just here…

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

used the Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians

his employer did not want Grace to discover his true identity.

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

room.

said, ushering the

survey of the room.

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 floor. One door,

over

tried hard to mask his

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

his employer had lost his

anxious and his posture was tense.

glanced at Terrence briefly as

immediately went to work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while

best general practitioners in the

any time, if the

necessary.”

nodded, but his eyes still had the wild look of a man

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