Nikki was having that horrible dream again but this time there was a difference. The James on her was looking at her gently as he stretched out his hand to touch her face. His hand on her face was very cold compared to her hot skin, she instinctively retreated.
When she retreated she felt that James wasn't that happy. Later, she felt something bitter forcefully entering her mouth. She wanted to vomit but immediately felt something sweet in her mouth pushing the bitter thing down along with some sweet water.
Then she felt cold towel on her hot skin. The contrast made her subconscious and want to run away but she was forced down by someone. After the event of the cold towel, she fell into deep sleep again.
The next time she woke up, she was so hot and was sweating, she wanted to fling her blanket away but she realised she was wrapped like a dumpling so she opened her eyes and looked around her.
She saw James sitting on a chair beside her bed with one of his hands on her chest. Looking closely, his hair was slightly ruffled and he was looking straight at her. 'Wait, how did he get in? I thought I locked the door.'
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James woke up at seven that morning. He looked around but he couldn't find his wife. Normally, she woke up very early to prepare his meals but he never ate it. Thinking about those days, he couldn't help but think he was very stupid.
He decided to make breakfast and let her sleep.. well with youtube, obviously.
After spending two hours in the kitchen making what he called breakfast, he went to check on his son and discovered that he was still asleep. Thinking it was the combination of both jet lag and his injuries, he woke him up lightly and fed him breakfast. This time there was a little table and chair for little Jimmy.
He accompanied Jimmy on a walk to Nikki's garden spending an hour because of the little boy's enthusiasm. When he got back he discovered that Malta was back so he handed the boy to her and went to check on his wife.
He opened the door directly after putting in the key and when he saw his wife sleeping on his bed, he smiled happily as he walked towards her. He was surprised when he saw her pale face and lowered his body to touch her forehead. She was burning so it was obvious she had a fever.
James was annoyed because she wasn't taking good care of her body as he turned around to get the fever medicine. He tried to feed it to her but she wasn't opening her mouth. So he forcefully shoved it in her mouth with his lips and poured a glass of water to push it down her mouth.
He got a pail of water and expertly cleaned her body with a soaked towel. He was good with it because when he was young, he never went to the hospital to treat his fever because of lack of money and he always personally wipe Malta's body when she was ill.
After wiping Nikki, James changed her pajamas and wrapped her in her blanket like a dumpling so she can sweat out the fever.
He sat down with the glass of water on one of the bedside drawers and stared at her for four hours straight before she started moving wanting to fling the blanket away, he quickly placed his hands on her to stop her movement not realising where it landed.
She opened her eyes slightly and looked around the room before looking at him and she froze visibly.
James looked at her intently. He remembered the horizontal scar he saw on her lower belly, it wasn't there before. He remembered the red beauty mark that looked like a blossoming flower on her little feet, he never noticed it before. What was it all about?
"Do you want some water?" James casually removed his hand and reached for the glass of water placed nearby.