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 irritably.

situation, sir? Should I instead

an ambulance?”

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

don’t think so.”

working on this

any doctor they

on the other line,” Terrence

medical data from her earlier hospital

visit.”

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

stay on

Grace to realize he hadn’t hung up

sir. See

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.

said, ‘No. Not in a million years would Mr. Reed act

he was. In a shanty of an apartment,

his former

wasn’t just here…

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

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

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

the side in case he should retreat without being seen. But when the door was opened, Jason immediately stepped aside and gestured him into the

room.

ushering the doctor into the

survey of the room.

apartments were small. But this 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 table for two was

the one over the

hard to mask

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

had lost his usual calmness.

anxious and his

briefly as if for confirmation.

while Jason stood by, looking on the verge of something dangerous.

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

airlifted at any time, if the doctor

necessary.”

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