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

a high fever went unchecked

something happened to her, Grandpa would be the one to get worked up and end up in

wake her up so she could take fever medicine

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name, she stayed curled up like a small, abandoned animal. She

didn’t want any

reached out and gave her shoulder a light shake,

“So cold…

dreams, she was

she

wake up. You need

to shake her again, her entire

guard, he stumbled and fell backward

was on top. He

entire body went rigid like a block of

darkened instantly, like ink

a woman

forehead was burning, but her hands and

it–no idea

purely by instinct, she clung to the human furnace

stunned–then realized she was starting

hand kept going, sliding down the lines of his

“Lily!”

her, trying to push her

was clinging like an octopus. No matter how he tried, he couldn’t shake

warning, she lifted her

one day

grew even colder. His voice was sharp and commanding. “Take your

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was deep in her fever haze and didn’t even

lost in