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.

was slightly agitated as Josie’s complexion grew

the soft mattress in the master bedroom. Josie’s mind raced as the

wrestled against his grasp, but he held her hand firmly. He scorned. “I have no intention of having sex with a sick woman.”

but an underlying

before swiftly going

bed as the balcony door clicked shut, catching whiffs of his lingering scent that danced in her nostrils.

the medicine that Dexter had sent earlier. The

might be coming down with a cold. Her eyelids were

Josie curled up and asleep. He shook her in panic, Josie, wake

said Dexter as he slid a thermometer into

Josie

where scars from the

needles

gingerly prepared and administered the medicine to her as her brows furrowed in

the room with a bowl of hot soup and carefully served, “Sir, here you