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 irritably.

the severity of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

this now, sir.”

doctor they called would want to know more details

a doctor on the other

and the medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

and wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face and

me to stay on the line, sir?”

realize he hadn’t hung

sir. See you

engaging in a way that suggested more than

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would

here he was. In a shanty of an apartment,

his former lover.

Jason wasn’t just here… he was

his place to question

the best physicians

all, his employer did not want Grace

the side in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the

room.

he said, ushering the doctor

took a quick survey of

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, presumably to a

over the sink.

to

I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason

had

anxious and his posture was

glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation. Terrence nodded.

Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of something

the best general practitioners in the city. And we

airlifted at any time, if the

necessary.”

eyes still had the wild look of a man about to come

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