When The Family Reads The Fake Heiress Mind novel Chapter 364

Chapter 364 I Came to Check on You

Jean let her head fall back onto the pillow, eyes closing on instinct.

Oddly enough, maybe it was psychological, but the pain in her head seemed to ease just a little.

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She tossed her phone aside, too exhausted to keep chatting with Winston. It kept dinging beside her with several new messages…

Winston had sent her quite a few texts, but none of them got a reply.

Half–conscious, Jean drifted in a haze–somewhere between dreaming and waking.

And then, in a daze-

She thought she saw her bedroom door slowly creak open.

Her lashes trembled faintly, and her eyes fluttered halfway open.

A tall, lean silhouette appeared without warning at the edge of her blurry vision.

Jean instinctively widened her eyes, trying to make out who it was…

But the world in front of her felt dim and muddled, swirling in a dark haze.

Her head was still spinning.

The figure moved quickly toward her. Then-

She heard a voice, cool and clear like peppermint, low and lazy beside her ear. “Hey, you okay?”

It was…

Jean’s fingers twitched.

It was Winston.

A small smile crept onto her lips. Her vision was still fuzzy, but her mind sharpened slightly. “Winston…. you came…”

Winston bent one knee, crouching beside her bed.

His gaze, deep and steady, fell on the side of her face. “I sent you a bunch of messages. You never replied….”

“Then I remembered you said you had a fever…”