Chapter 26: Illness

Janice groaned as she came awake. She glanced to her side and watched Jules curl into a fetal position. He tossed about on the bed, twisted and groaned. Janice wondered if he was having a nightmare as she watched him with a frown. Her hands went to tap his shoulder and she grimaced whilst retracting it. "Shit!" She mumbled glancing at him. She realized he wasn't having a nightmare, rather he was shivering. "You are burning up." She muttered. He sneezed and groaned out her name. "Janice." Janice barely heard his weak voice mention her name. "I warned you last night, but you were so hard-headed to listen." After he made love to her last night, a storm had descended without warning. Janice had warned him from going in. But, being the hard-headed man he was, he didn't listen. More so, Janice had let him be since he had told her he was helping the villagers whose houses had been uprooted due to the lack of a solid foundation. Jules had found a shelter for them inside the walls o