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

the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

question and it lessened Jason’s annoyance slightly. “No,” he

don’t think so.”

on this

no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details of the

a doctor on the other line,”

the medical data from her earlier

visit.”

wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face and

you want me to stay on the line,

too busy with Grace to realize he hadn’t hung up the phone. “No.”

sir. See

in his boss in the time since Mr. Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a

here he was. In a shanty of an apartment, with a woman

his former lover.

Jason wasn’t just here… he was

his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his

to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the

knocking on the door. After all, his employer did not want Grace to discover his true identity.

being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside and gestured him into

room.

ushering the doctor into the house.

a quick survey of

sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette table for two was at the center. One armoire. A single bed. A pile of

over the sink.

tried hard to mask his

her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.”

his employer had lost his

anxious and his posture was tense.

at Terrence briefly as if

vitals, all while Jason stood

“Dr. Raunfield is one of the best general practitioners in the city. And we

time,

necessary.”

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