The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 96 Fever Dream

Chapter 96 Fever Dream

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“It’s late. You should go lie down. Just wait–when you go online tomorrow morning, you’ll get to see Mathilda and the others make fools of themselves!”

Nancy’s palm was so warm.

But even with her holding her hand, Lily still found it all hard to believe.

Whenever something bad happened in the past, she’d always had to fight through it on her oWIL

This time, she’d barely done anything–and someone had stepped in for her. It felt like a dream.

She pinched herself quietly.

It hurt.

So clearly, it wasn’t a dream.

She really had a family now. Somewhere to belong. Somewhere to rest.

Even if her time with the Luke family was destined to be short–lived, she was endlessly grateful for having met them at all.

From now on, she would do everything in her power to repay their kindness.

Lily was exhausted and drowsy. She didn’t force herself to stay up. Wrapped in a small blanket, she returned to the room she shared with James.

She believed things would start to get better. She didn’t check the hate online again. She simply sent James

“Good night” message and soon drifted into a deep sleep….

By the time James returned home, it was the middle of the night.

After a quick shower, he planned to head straight to the study to sleep.

But as he passed by the bed, he caught sight of the blanket half–fallen onto the floor.

Just as he was about to look away, he noticed Lily curled up in the corner of the bed, hugging herself tightly. She was trembling, her face flushed an alarming red.

“Lily”

clearly running

like meddling in other people’s business–but if a high fever went unchecked too long,

would be the one to get worked

he decided to wake her up so she could

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her name, she stayed curled up like a small, abandoned animal. She didn’t even

any physical contact

Reluctantly, he reached out and gave her shoulder a light

“So cold…

dreams, she was trapped in a frozen,

against her shoulder, became the only heat she could feel. Without thinking, she reached out to cling

up. You need to

reached out to shake her again, her entire body suddenly pressed into his. She wrapped herself tightly around

stumbled and fell backward onto

top. He

entire body went rigid like a block of

darkened instantly, like

there would come a day when a

forehead was burning, but her hands and feet were

completely out of it–no

instinct, she clung to the human furnace beneath her,

was starting to

chest–her hand kept going, sliding down the lines of his abs

“Lily!”

grabbed her, trying to

like an octopus. No matter how he tried,

the sound of his voice. Without warning, she lifted her hand and

imagined that one day he would be

sharp and commanding. “Take your hand off me!

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her fever haze and didn’t even recognize his

lost