Wife of fortune

Chapter 20

I wake up early in the night, everything is still dark and I feel Graysons warm body next to me. My stomach twists and I feel the need to run to the bathroom and throw up.

I flush the toilet and wash my face and rinse my mouth with some cold water. God I feel awful. But I don't remember drinking that much last night. And my head isn't even hurting that bad it's just that I feel sick.

I go and crawl back into bed. I try to fall asleep but shivers run down my body and suddenly I feel so cold. I curl up to Grayson who subconsciously pulls me in his arms and I enjoy the body heat but I still feel cold.

I try to fall asleep but I end up twisting and turning around in bed until the sun comes up and Graysons alarm goes off. He turns to turn it off and then comes back to me.

"Are you awake?" He asks quietly with his low morning voice.

"Mhm" I say.

"You're burning" he says and yet I feel cold.

"I'm freezing" I say and that only makes him pull me closer. Pulling the covers on me and tucking me in.

He reaches for his phone and types out a message and I finally feel a little warmer now that all the blanket has been given to me but the uneasiness takes over again and I'm rushing to the toilet.

"How much did you drink last night?" Grayson is asking as he's rubbing my back.

I wipe my mouth in a towel and my head falls back against the wall shivers running through my body "like maybe 3 glasses" I say.

He picks me up from the floor and carries me back to bed. I immediately pull all the blankets over me and heat Grayson go get ready for the day. When he walks out already dressed I pull my head out and look at him.

"The doctor will be here in an hour, are you gonna be okay till then?" He asks and I shake my head and with that he plants a kiss on my forehead and leaves.

Another hour I twist around and then the doctors comes over. He takes my temperature and I'm running a serious fever. He asks me many questions, looks at my pulse and listens for me lung sounds. And then puts an IV in to get me some liquids.

"It looks like it could be food poisoning from what you've been telling me" he says and I watch him inject some medicine in the IV drip.

"We had the same thing and I'm okay" Malika says as she sits at the end of my bed, she came to me the moment she found out I wasn't feeling alright.

"Maybe she got a bad batch and you got a new one" The doctor says as he waits for the IV to finish.

"It's weird, we've been there before and nothing like that has happened before" Malika says thinking out loud as she fixes the cold water towel on my forehead.

"How long before I feel like a human again?" I ask.

"You should feel better tomorrow if it's just food poisoning" he says.

We wait for the IV to drip until it's empty and then doctors packs up and leaves and Malika stays with me as we watch Arab and I keep falling in and out of sleep. And at one moment I pass out and wake up at around 5pm and Malika isn't here anymore and the TV is turned off.

I feel so much better now and my stomach grumbles asking for food so I put on some pants and put my hair in a bun and head downstairs.

I walk inside the kitchen and grab a cold bottle of water. It feels so good to drink. But I sit down and wait for a couple of minutes making sure it won't want to reappear.

Cole walks in and I look at him as he walks over to the fridge. "How you feeling?" He asks.

"Better" I say and take another sip of the water.