The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 422 Physical Cooling and Desert Orders

Chapter 422 Physical Cooling and Desert Orders

Tessa instinctively turned her head–she’d accidentally touched one of Victor’s injuries.

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She glanced at it for only a second before quickly looking away and continuing the task. She wiped his upper body, then moved lower.

By the time she got to his lower half, she’d turned her head so far away she could barely see what she was doing.

Then, suddenly–her wrist was grabbed.

Tessa froze.

“What are you doing?”

Victor’s voice, hoarse from fever, broke the silence like a blade.

Tessa turned back slowly and met his bloodshot eyes.

Even now, with his body burning up, his gaze carried that same unrelenting pressure. Tessa swallowed hard.

“P–Physical cooling,” she stammered.

As her eyes drifted downward, she realized exactly where the towel in her hand was… currently placed.

She went completely blank.

True, she hadn’t yanked off his underwear like he had with her towel the other night.

There was some coverage. Technically.

But barely.

She looked at him, panicked. “You were burning up, and the fever medicine wasn’t working, so I…”

Victor’s grip on her wrist tightened.

her like

Tessa gulped again.

her head, she whispered, “I tried calling your people. None of them

she’d gotten through, none of this would’ve

let me

She was panicking.

advantage of

Eventually, Victor released her.

the fever, he

serious complications, continued wiping

third round, the fever

the side of his bed and

The next morning.

until

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stirred only when someone knocked

“Victor. It’s me.”

echoed from

sat up–only to see Tessa sleeping beside him, head resting against

absolute mess, like it had been stirred by a

“Victor? I’m coming in-”

response, Lewis opened the door and walked

he stepped in, he was met with Victor’s very unwelcoming

pulling the blanket over a woman lying next to

hell happened

His brain jammed instantly.

a woman now? That means we can’t

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knocking so long, why didn’t Victor say anything? Why was he looking at him like he wanted

I swear

“Out.”

was low

rapidly. “Right. I’m out. I’m so far out I’m