“Are you going to remain celibate for a man who doesn’t even exist?”

She didn’t have anything to say to him.

She wallowed in self-loathing and a craving for more of his affections. It turned out it was extremely easy to succumb to temptation.

Then, she pressed her face against his neck and found out that he was having a high fever.

…

Ever since Mason sacrificed himself for Yanni during the surgery, his body had never been the same. On top of that, he didn’t take good care of himself after he stood in the rain last time.

Now, he was having a high fever.

Zoe called a doctor over to the suite to give him an injection. Fortunately, that brought down his body temperature significantly in the middle of the night. He was well below a hundred degrees Fahrenheit now.

She let out a sigh of relief.

Dressed in his pajamas, he leaned on the headboard. He wanted to get up and bathe, but Zoe stopped him. “The doctor said you can only take a bath after your fever goes down! Lie down. I’m