Chapter 376 Fever

She closed her eyes momentarily and met his gaze. “I returned to retrieve my belongings,” she stated firmly.

Dexter ascended the stairs and stopped before her. “Just tell me what you need, and I’ll bring it to you,” he assured succinctly. There was a menacing intensity in his gaze.

Josie trembled as he drew closer but shook off the tremor and asserted, “My laptop.”

“Where are your keys?”

Little did she know that Dexter was informed of her arrival in Mason Garden.

Her head throbbed, and she retorted. Forget about it.”

As she turned, her wrist was seized. “Mason Garden isn’t a place you can simply stroll in as you like,” a voice chided.

The grip on her wrist was intense. Her body lurched backward and fell into Dexter’s arms. It was a moment frozen in time.

agitated as

carried her, carefully placing her onto the soft mattress in the master bedroom. Josie’s mind raced as the haunting memories of that fateful night resurfaced. “Get out!”

firmly. He scorned. “I have

subsided, but an underlying

bedroom before swiftly going

soft bed as the balcony door clicked shut, catching whiffs of his lingering scent that danced in her nostrils. Her head spun

her for not taking the medicine that Dexter had sent earlier. The drip’s efficacy had faded

be coming down with a cold. Her eyelids were heavy, and she slowly drifted

curled up and asleep. He shook

open up,” said Dexter as he slid a thermometer

Half asleep, Josie complied.

her wrist, where scars from the

more needles for

medicine to

with a bowl of hot soup and carefully served, “Sir, here you

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