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?

and lowered his head only to find

revealing his chest.

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

her face

look before you woke up, so

the brighter her cheeks glowed.

you see. You can look at

so hard, and it was quite adorable,

anymore?” It took

out this

head and began to button up

his neck, but she accidentally caught a glimpse of his chest, and then suddenly pulled down his pajama top again.

“Hey-you are hurt!’

faint, Grace could still tell that the wound

injury,” he said in an indifferent

been sleeping, he had been crying out in pain, and her hand

was he hurt back then? Grace felt

this? When did it happen?”

and other 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 near his heart.

a long time. It’s no longer painful,” he said.

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