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.

is it?” Jason

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.”

working on this now,

normally would’ve hung up, he spared a second to offer some explanation because no doubt any doctor they called would want to know more details of the situation too. “She has a

other line,”

and the medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

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

to stay

was too busy with Grace to realize he

See you

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 obligation. And given this woman’s background and what had transpired surrounding Mr. Reed’s fiancee’s death, it was

rather incredible.

would’ve said, ‘No. Not in

he was. In a shanty of an apartment,

his former

wasn’t just here… he

realization was one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed of his emotional attachments-or lack

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

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

when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside

room.

said, ushering the doctor

a quick survey of the room.

enough room for the sink, stove, refrigerator. A small dinette table for

the one over the sink.

hard to mask his shock.

at her,” Jason said. “What’s wrong with her? I kept calling her just now but I couldn’t wake her up.” Jason stood beside the bed.

employer had lost

anxious and his posture was tense.

briefly as if for

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

the best general practitioners in

any time, if

necessary.”

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