Chapter 67

Grace breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s great. You’ve finally

woken up.”

Woken up? When had he fallen asleep?

One moment he’d been in Grace’s arms. Soaking up her strength and scent. The next, he must’ve drifted off to sleep and the memories seized him.

Wait, no. That wasn’t entirely right.

They’d chatted more after dinner. Then each taken time to wash up and change for bed.

He’d lay down on the cot and counted her breaths until she fell asleep.

Jason rubbed his eyes, the events of the evening coming back to him in short order.

He’d not had a nightmare like this in a long time.

In his dream, he had knelt down in front of the woman and begged her… Was it because he had talked about that woman tonight that he had had such a dream?

long breath and lowered his head only to

unbuttoned, revealing his

gaze and she pursed her lips as if she was embarrassed. “Because… you were shouting that it hurts so much. I was afraid that something was wrong with your body… So, uh, I just went ahead and unbuttoned your shirt to see if

stared at her, and her face slowly

can assure you, I… I didn’t even have the time to look before you woke up, so actually, I didn’t see anything,” she hurriedly explained, but the more she

her

you see. You can

hard, and it

it h-hurt anymore?” It took her a long time to

this

doesn’t hurt anymore.” He lowered his head and began to button up

gaze above his neck, but she accidentally caught a glimpse of his chest, and then suddenly

“Hey-you are hurt!’

scar right above his heart. Although the scar was already faint, Grace could still tell that

small injury,” he

sleeping, he had been crying out in pain, and

felt as if her own heart was

you get hurt like this? When did it happen?” she

than the doctors, no one else had touched his wounds. She was the only one… It was as if all the blood in his body was pumping into the area

a long time. It’s

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