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…

felt

head was

figure moved quickly toward

peppermint,

It was…

Jean’s fingers twitched.

It was Winston.

onto her lips. Her vision was still fuzzy,

knee, crouching

on the side of her face. “I sent you a bunch of messages. You

you said you

tugging to one side. “So I

Her vision was clearing, and she could start

Her voice was soft, threaded with a hint of sweetness. “That’s kind of

much,” Winston

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lay

Came

wisely shut her

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sister. He didn’t know why he’d rushed

Ginger

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