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

of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly.

don’t think so.”

this

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

on the other line,” Terrence

the medical data from

visit.”

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

want me to stay

Grace to realize he hadn’t hung

sir. See you

had 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

rather incredible.

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

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

killed his former lover.

Jason wasn’t just here…

one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his emotional

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

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

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

room.

in,” he said, ushering the doctor into

took a quick survey of the

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

over the sink.

hard to

a look at her,” Jason said. “What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just

had lost his usual calmness.

expression was anxious and

doctor glanced at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation.

went to work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of

the best general practitioners

time, if the doctor deems it

necessary.”

wild

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