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

of the situation, sir?

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

this now, sir.”

doctor they called would want to

other

medical data from her earlier

visit.”

wrung out the washcloth to cool down her face and neck again.

you want me to stay

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

sir. See

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

rather incredible.

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

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

his former lover.

just here…

that realization was one he would keep to himself. It was not his place to question or inform Mr. Reed

Reed Group name to enlist the services of one of the best physicians

all, his employer did

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

room.

he said, ushering the

survey

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 the floor.

over the sink.

to mask his

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

had lost his usual

and his posture

at Terrence briefly as if for

to work, checking Grace’s vitals, all while Jason stood by, looking

of the best general practitioners in the city. And we

time, if the doctor deems

necessary.”

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