Chapter Thirty-One
Rachel
At some point during the night, I awoke, my own cough jolting me out of sleep. For a moment, I was disoriented. Then, I realized I was burrowed against Remy’s chest with the blankets tucked over both of us. Before he arrived last night, I’d been having those awful feverish shivers where I couldn’t quite get the heat to seep through my body, even though I was hot from the fever.
Held fast against him, his body a bulwark of strength and heat, I was finally warm all the way through. The worst of the feverish feeling had passed, although I knew that was likely due to the Ibuprofen. I could still feel the fever under the surface, waiting to break through.
I was so tired and so weak. I hated needing someone, but I was relieved Remy had shown up last night. Lifting m
