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 long breath and lowered his head only to

his chest. “My clothes

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

her face slowly

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 explained, the odder she sounded.

the brighter her cheeks

see. You can look

was blushing so hard, and

it h-hurt anymore?” It

this sentence.

He lowered his head and began

accidentally caught a glimpse of his chest, and then

“Hey-you are hurt!’

still tell that the wound had definitely not been a minor injury back when

injury,” he said in an

lower lip with her teeth and raised her hand to touch. the scar gently. While he had been sleeping, he had been crying out in pain, and her hand had

hurt back then? Grace felt as if her own

hurt like this? When did it

he had been injured, and other than the doctors, no one else had touched his wounds. She was the only one…

been a long time. It’s

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