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.

it?” Jason asked

of the situation, sir? Should I instead call

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

this now,

second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want

on the other line,” Terrence

data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

out the washcloth to cool

me to stay on the

Grace to realize he hadn’t hung up the phone.

See you soon.”

changes in his boss in the time since Mr. Reed saved Miss Cummins. Mr. Reed was engaging in a way that suggested more than work or business

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr.

a shanty of an apartment, with a

killed his former

just here… he

one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform

the Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians in the city. Then he woke the

was especially careful when knocking on the door. After all, his employer did not

when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside and gestured him into the small

room.

ushering the

quick survey of the room.

was a fraction of the size of Mr. Reed’s office. The kitchenette was perhaps ten feet long with enough room for the sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette

one over the

hard to mask his shock.

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

sensed his employer had lost his usual

was anxious and his posture

at Terrence briefly as if for confirmation.

checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of something dangerous.

best general practitioners in the city.

any time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

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