My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 84

Chapter 84

That night, Jason was awakened by Grace’s muffled scream.

She tossed and turned and mumbled in her sleep.

He couldn’t make out what she was saying but her pained

whimpers and trembling made him think she was in fear or

pain.

“Sister,” he called to her. But she didn’t respond.

When he touched her head, he frowned. Her head was hot,

and her slight body was slicked with sweat.

Jason hurriedly wrung a towel soaked in cool water and wiped

Grace’s forehead.

But her eyes remained shut and she was still muttering something.

No matter how he called her, she wouldn’t wake up. A flash of panic crept over him. He didn’t know what to do-and he hated feeling inept. He hated it almost as much as realizing how worried he was about her. Which meant he was in way

over his head.

No. This was just a reaction given her medical history and

their circumstances.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

He took out his phone and immediately dialed Terrence. “Get

me a doctor. And send them to the apartment.”

“Now?” Terrence asked.

“Yes, now,” Jason ordered.

“Yes, sir.” There was a pause.

Jason asked irritably.

of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,”

don’t think so.”

working on this

to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation too. “She has

a doctor on the other line,” Terrence

events and the medical data from her

visit.”

Grace’s brow and wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face and

want me to stay on the line,

was too busy with Grace to realize

See you soon.”

was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business obligation.

rather incredible.

asked to predict these events, Terrence would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr. Reed act like this.

was. In a shanty of

killed his former lover.

wasn’t just here… he was present.

keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of

the Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the doctor up and collected him from his

After all, his employer did not want Grace to discover his true identity.

kept to the side in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately

room.

the doctor into the

took a quick survey of the room.

perhaps ten feet long with enough room for the sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette table for two was at the center. One armoire. A single bed. A pile of pillows and blankets on

over the

tried hard to mask his

at her,” Jason said. “What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just

his employer had lost

anxious and his

briefly as if for confirmation.

vitals, all while Jason stood by,

the best

airlifted at any time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

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