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“You were in here long enough I knew Taylor was alone” His voice was growing closer “Go keep an eye on things out there If I’et me”

Nothing, then footsteps, the sound of the door opening and closing

Ath to protest

Jack bent, placed his hand on her back “Are you hurting?”

Did the excruciating ache in her chest count? Or just the horrific cra her stomach?

His hand went to her forehead “You’re burning up with fever How long have you been fighting this?”

Since a few hours after the first nursing-ho her sy even as they’d continued to o denial had become impossible

She rarely got sick Why today?

“You shouldn’t be in here,” she said, hearing the whine in her voice and beyond caring “I don’t want to make you sick, too”

“You won’t”

“You’re not ierms, Jack”

He sighed “I can’t leave you on the bathrooive you so to calm your stomach down”

The thought of hi her around, did not appeal

“I don’t want to move”

He wasn’t having it “You can’t stay here indefinitely”