Sonia blinked in a daze.
She remembered she had deliberately stayed 2 feet away from Toby when she went to bed last night.
Could it be that he woke up in the middle of the night and leaned over?
At that thought, Sonia quickly scratched that idea out of her head because Toby had slept earlier than her. Besides that, his posture had not changed since last night, so she reckoned Toby had not woken up in the middle of the night.
Since Toby had not woken up, there was only one answer as to why they were leaning so close to each other—she had been restless and rolled over to Toby!
At once, Sonia was flushed with awkwardness at this thought as she had not expected herself to be this restless while sleeping.
Nonetheless, she quickly composed herself.
No one saw me rolling over anyway. Toby won’t know about it as long as I don’t bring it up!
With that, Sonia stretched before lifting the blanket and walking to the bonfire.
The fire had gone out as all the firewood had been burnt. However, the remains were still hot, so Sonia reckoned the fire had just gone out not too long ago.
After that, Sonia checked on the clothes hanging beside the fire and realized that they had become dry, so she took them down for changing later.
“I wonder what time it is now,” Sonia murmured while glancing toward the sunlight at the cave entrance.
The next second, she recalled Toby had a watch, so she quickly put down the clothes, walked over to Toby and squatted down to check the time. However, before she could reach out to his hand, she
realized Toby was looking unwell.
Why is his face so red? His breathing is rapid and heavy too. These are obviously signs of a fever!
Panic-stricken, Sonia quickly reached out her hand to feel Toby’s forehead. “He’s burning up!”
Frowning, she quickly pulled back her hand and looked at Toby with a serious expression.
Last night when she was treating his wound, she had specially sterilized the wound properly as she was worried that Toby would get an infection, which would lead to a fever.
Nonetheless, he still got a fever although the wound had been treated.
Sonia reckoned the cause of his fever was not due to the wound, but because he was continuously wearing drenched clothes for quite some time after falling into the water. In addition, he was exposed to the cold wind when Sonia was carrying him
on her back.
“I have to think of a way to make the fever go away.” Sonia bit her lip and quickly got up to look for medicines to treat the fever from the first-aid kit last night.
Upon finding a suitable medicine, she went back to Toby and supported him to sit up by leaning against her shoulder. She opened his mouth and put a tablet into it. Then, she closed his mouth and lifted his chin, hoping to make him swallow the tablet.
However, Toby had already lost his consciousness, so he couldn’t swallow anything at all.
As such, the tablet still remained in Toby’s mouth no matter how hard Sonia tried.
Just as Sonia was at her wits’ end, her eyes lit up all of a sudden as she had an idea.
It was an awkward solution and she would rather not do so if she had a choice, but in order to make Toby’s fever go away, this was her last resort.
Sonia stared at Toby’s handsome face for a few seconds. Toward the end, she inhaled deeply, opened his mouth once again, and lowered her head to kiss him.
She used her tongue to push the tablet toward Toby’s throat.
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