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”

was clearly running

business–but if a high fever went unchecked

something happened to her, Grandpa would be the one to get

wake her up so

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she stayed curled up like a small, abandoned animal.

any

Reluctantly, he reached out and gave her shoulder a light shake, hoping it would snap her

“So cold…

dreams, she

heat she could feel. Without thinking, she reached

up. You need

out to shake her again, her entire body suddenly pressed into his. She

stumbled and fell

top.

rigid like a

instantly, like

never thought there would come a day when a woman would have the nerve to pin

burning, but her hands

of it–no idea what

clung to the human furnace

she was starting

hand kept going, sliding down the lines of

“Lily!”

trying

matter how he tried,

his voice. Without warning, she lifted her hand and slapped it over his

day he would be forcibly

His voice was sharp and

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was deep in her fever haze and didn’t even

still lost