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?

a hand through his hair. He exhaled a long breath and lowered his head only to find that

his chest. “My clothes

much. I

stared at her, and her face

so actually, I didn’t see anything,” she hurriedly explained, but the more she explained, the odder she sounded.

the brighter her

if you see. You can look at my body,” Jason said.

and it

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

this

lowered his head

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

“Hey-you are hurt!’

the scar was already faint, Grace could still tell that the wound had definitely not been a minor injury back when he had received it.

just a small injury,” he said in an

had been sleeping, he had been crying out in pain, and her hand had accidentally touched this area. Was he in pain because

was he hurt back then? Grace felt as if her own

hurt like this? When

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. Beneath her touch, his heart

been a long time. It’s no

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