The Coldest Man in the Room Melted Only for Me novel Chapter 478

She hadn't expected her fake cold to turn into a real one. Running around with practically no clothes on for half the night in the dead of winter, and then sweating so much—it was obvious that's when she caught the bug.

Riley had no choice but to take the rest of the day off and head home, where she had some basic cold and fever medicine stocked up.

Once home, she took a cold pill and went straight to bed. A low-grade fever caused by a cold usually broke after some medication and a good sleep.

She didn't know how long she had been asleep. In her feverish haze, Riley vaguely heard her phone ringing. She tried to reach for it, but her eyelids felt like they weighed a ton and absolutely refused to open. Her body was overwhelmingly sore and weak; even the slightest movement was agonizing.

Mrs. Gable had just walked out of the kitchen after finishing dinner. Hearing the phone ringing incessantly from Riley's room with no one answering, she walked to the doorway. "Riley, your phone is ringing."

Riley struggled to open her eyes. The room was pitch black. Her cold seemed to have gotten much worse. Her body was limp and burning up; the fever hadn't broken and had likely spiked. She figured she needed to get up and take a fever reducer.

She thought about moving, but her body completely refused to cooperate. She had absolutely zero strength and couldn't sit up at all. "Mrs. Gable, could you answer the phone for me?"

Her voice was even hoarser from the fever than it had been earlier.

Filled with worry, Mrs. Gable flipped on the light and walked in. She picked up the phone from the nightstand and answered it. "Ms. Spencer?"

"Mrs. Gable? Where's Riley?"

"Riley caught a cold and has a fever. She's sleeping right now." As Mrs. Gable spoke, she looked anxiously at Riley on the bed. Riley's eyes were closed, looking incredibly exhausted, her face flushed with an unnatural, sickly red.

"Oh no, is it serious?"

Mrs. Gable reached out to feel Riley's forehead and gasped at the burning heat. "Ms. Spencer, Riley took medicine and slept all afternoon, but she's burning up even worse now. I can't talk, I need to get her to the hospital."

"Yes, hurry!"