Blind Date Turned Proposal

Chapter 376 Fever

She closed her eyes momentarily and met his gaze. “I returned to retrieve my belongings,” she stated firmly.

Dexter ascended the stairs and stopped before her. “Just tell me what you need, and I’ll bring it to you,” he assured succinctly. There was a menacing intensity in his gaze.

Josie trembled as he drew closer but shook off the tremor and asserted, “My laptop.”

“Where are your keys?”

Little did she know that Dexter was informed of her arrival in Mason Garden.

Her head throbbed, and she retorted. Forget about it.”

As she turned, her wrist was seized. “Mason Garden isn’t a place you can simply stroll in as you like,” a voice chided.

The grip on her wrist was intense. Her body lurched backward and fell into Dexter’s arms. It was a moment frozen in time.

agitated as Josie’s complexion grew unusually

carried her, carefully placing her onto the soft mattress in the master bedroom. Josie’s mind raced as the haunting memories of that fateful night resurfaced.

against his grasp, but he held her hand firmly. He scorned. “I have no intention of having

but an underlying

bedroom before swiftly going down the

bed as the balcony door clicked shut, catching whiffs of his lingering scent that danced in her nostrils. Her head spun relentlessly as if being

taking the medicine that Dexter had sent earlier. The

eyes, Josie realized she might be coming down with a

curled up and asleep. He

he

Josie complied.

to her wrist, where scars from

needles for her.

the medicine to her as

into the room with a bowl of hot soup and carefully served,