Chapter 512

Donovan's mind grew hazy under the grip of a high fever. His body burned like it was being roasted alive, his head pounding so violently that sleep became impossible. His thoughts scattered, and he could remember nothing at all. Gradually, his consciousness began to blur. He no longer had the strength to feel sorrow, nor the will to remember. Strangely, there was a hint of twisted relief in that numbness. He didn't want to wake up. At least in this feverish haze, he could not think of her, nor feel the suffocating weight in his chest. He prayed the fever would simply take his life. When the ever-attentive Adrian gently pushed open his bedroom door the next morning and saw how ill Donovan was, he immediately informed the Kanes. Knowing it would be impossible to take him to a hospital, Dorothea quickly summoned their family doctor to the house. At first, Donovan resisted the doctor's approach, but under Dorothea's orders, Adrian and the household staff forcibly restrained him. The