When the Family 364

Chapter 364 I Came to Check on You

Jean let her head fall back onto the pillow, eyes closing on instinct.

Oddly enough, maybe it was psychological, but the pain in her head seemed to ease just a little.

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She tossed her phone aside, too exhausted to keep chatting with Winston. It kept dinging beside her with several new messages…

Winston had sent her quite a few texts, but none of them got a reply.

Half–conscious, Jean drifted in a haze–somewhere between dreaming and waking.

And then, in a daze-

She thought she saw her bedroom door slowly creak open.

Her lashes trembled faintly, and her eyes fluttered halfway open.

A tall, lean silhouette appeared without warning at the edge of her blurry vision.

Jean instinctively widened her eyes, trying to make out who it was…

world in front of her felt dim and muddled, swirling

head was still

quickly

voice, cool and clear like peppermint, low and

It was…

Jean’s fingers twitched.

It was Winston.

vision was still fuzzy, but her mind sharpened slightly. “Winston….

one knee,

gaze, deep and steady, fell on the side of her face. “I sent

said

to one side. “So I came to

her eyes. Her vision was clearing, and she could start

soft, threaded with a

too much,”

1/2

lay

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shut her

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on his little sister. He didn’t know why he’d rushed

the Ginger family to ask how

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