Chapter 96

Larissa wasn’t the only one who was shocked. The doctor who’d been standing on one side dropped the

needle he had been holding upon Kevan’s sudden bellow.

Larissa froze, her heart stopping for two seconds and her mind going completely blank.

When he’d finally identified the person standing in front of him, Kevan’s rationality returned, and the ice in his eyes slowly dissipated.

The tautness in his mind earlier relaxed as well, followed by a wave of sluggish drowsiness that hit him almost at once. He forced his eyes to stay open as he asked, his voice hoarse and weak. “Why are you here?”

She snapped out of her daze as well.

She pointed to the doctor as she replied, “You have a fever. The doctor is here to see you.”

It was then that he noticed the unfamiliar, middle–aged man standing behind her.

“Do you still have the strength to unbutton your own shirt?” Larissa waved the thermometer in her hand. “I

need to take your temperature.”

Kevan removed her hands from his own and answered truthfully, “I can’t. I don’t have the strength.”

It almost seemed as if the strength he’d used to grab her that could’ve almost killed her earlier was nothing but a figment of her own imagination.

to not argue with him since he was sick and needed their help.

It was just-

when he was asleep was one thing. When he was

didn’t think about it too much. The action of undoing his buttons seemed merely mechanical. Now that he’d awakened, the pressure she felt increased, and her hands

down, the happenings around her moving in slow motion, like scenes in a film.

her thundering heartbeat loud in her ears.

after much difficulty, she managed to unbutton the first three buttons on

cooperatively, allowing his collar to widen and slip down his

flushed from his fever, his skin a faint pinkish shade. The visuals in her head were much more suggestive than they usually were.

the thermometer under his armpit and

timer for you.” She pretended to fish out her phone and set an

stood at the head of the bed.

your throat

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Chapter 96

“Any diarrhea?”

else that hurts?”

series of questions, all of

minutes was up.

doctor attempted to retrieve the thermometer when Kevan dodged, a hint

such a combative patient in his career. For

like he was at

Kevan was concerned about. Hurriedly, she stepped behind

“Let me

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