Jason groaned as he got out of bed, wiping his face with his palm he walked into his bathroom. Looking at his reflection in the mirror he sighed, today his life would go back to normal.

'Jessie must be excited.' He thought. Nodding to himself, why wouldn't she be? He would be glad if he was in the same situation. He didn't steal her from her life but he sure as hell enabled the entire situation. 'What was I even thinking!' he thought combing his hair with his fingers. 'Father is going to be mad with rage. Oh well it is the least I could do. How could he bring back Jonathan?' ​​

Grabbing his toothbrush rather forcefully he started to brush his teeth and curse at the mirror. A little while later he was done bathing and dressing. Grabbing his suit jacket he walked out of his room buttoning his sleeve.

He headed down stairs expecting to see a blonde woman with a flowery dress. He went into the balcony kitchen and the gym room nothing. The laundry room was also empty, after going through all the rooms on the ground floor he wondered if she could still be upstairs.

He went back up to her room, "Jessie?" He knocked on the door. "Jessie? Jessie open the door!"

'Did she perhaps already leave?' he thought. He shook his head no way she would have gotten out.

"Jessie?" He tried to open the door but it was locked, jangling the door he couldn't get open. He pressed his ear against the door, as first it felt like he heard movements so he called out again, "Jessie?" He thought he imagined it until he heard a loud thud on the ground.

"Jessie! Jessie can you hear me?!" He yelled. Using his body to ram into the door when he didn't get an answer. He stepped back a few steps and kicked the door lock it gave in and broke open. Rushing inside he saw Jessie collapsed on the floor.

"Jessie? Jessie, answer me" he shook her but she was unconscious and unresponsive. Her skin felt hot and clammy, she was sweating and looked very pale, picking her up he took her into her bathroom, stripped of her clothes and turned on the tub. He judged that she must just have had a bath since her skin felt oily, he dropped her into the tub of cold water. She was still unconscious, he quickly ran downstairs getting all the ice he could from the fridge and the bar he ran back to her. He dumped everything in the water, and knelt by her.

"Jessie please wake up, please." He pleaded as her pushed the hair that stuck on her face away.

"Hmm..." she groaned.

"Are you okay?" He asked. Her eyes fluttered open and close until she finally came to.

"Jason?"

"Yeah, yeah it's me."

"What happened? I don't feel very good." She said weakly. "I'm so cold, I want to get out of here." She said standing up.

Jason held her back, "No not yet, you're still too hot." He got up and reached into a cabinet in the bathroom and pulled out a thermometer.

Putting it in her ear, "we need to lower your temperature Jessie. Please endure it a bit, hmm?"

"I don't want to" she whined, pushing him away to get out.

Jason struggled to get her to stay put especially when she was determined to get out if the freezing water. In their tug of war, Jason pushed her to hard and in the process of clutching to him for support he himself slipped and fell into the water.

"Shit!" he cussed as he fell in. It really was cold. He locked her in the tub and caged her with his body as he knelt with one knee in between her legs and his two hands at each side of her head.

Jessie feeling a bit of comfort and heat from Jason body snaked his arms around his neck and pulled him closer to herself until he was touching her body.

An action that made Jason distracted. Slowly he lowered his head, inching closer and closer with each millisecond. Even Jessie closed her eyes and raised her chin anticipating what could be coming next. As if in a daze they were both distracted or probably adhering to the physical attraction they'd been feeling since day one.

And just as the imaginary drum roll got faster and contact was to be made, Jason phone rang. Jessie snapping from the daze withdrew her hands around his neck until her palms laid flat against his chest and she slightly pushed him away. Seeing that she was more alert, he ignored the phone call and picked the thermometer again and put it in her ear. 37.8, that was good enough. Moving backwards he stepped out of the tub and picked Jessie up as well, not trying to ignore the fact that she was only in her underwear. Jessie held his neck for support as her took her out of the room and laid her on the bed. A moment later he threw a towel at her and handed her a bath robe.

"Can you change by yourself?" He asked.

She nodded slightly. He walked back into the bathroom and picked up his phone from the washing hand basin. Walking out to give her some privacy, he went into his room to change his clothes, dripping as he went.

He would tell the cleaning lady to come earlier today, after discarding his wet clothes he picked up the phone to see who called, Paul.

He must be in the building, sending a quick text he dressed. Wondering what the hell made her so sick this morning. And silently cussing himself for being a bit relieved she wasn't in any shape to leave just yet.

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Paul walked out of the elevator wondering what caused Jason to send him an SOS, the only other time in their twenty five years of friendship was when he was in an accident when they were teenagers and his father could not find out the he broke his leg or totalled his car.

He reached the door and rang the bell, looking into the camera by the entrance. He dialed Jason number but before he called the door opened.

"Dude, what is the emergency? You look fine to me."

"It's Jessie, I need a doctor" Jason said the desperation all though faint noticeable in his voice.

"Who is Jessie?" Paul asked following Jason into the house as he basically ran upstairs.

"The woman I bought from the Lee's auction house." He said as they both ran up.

"What's the matter? What's wrong with her?" Paul asked as they entered her room.

"I have no idea, last time I saw her, last night she was having stomach pains so I just assumed it was you know, cramps. But earlier this morning I had to break down her lock to pick her up from the floor, she was so hot. I put her in the tub with some ice to reduce her temperature, she came to and I left her to change. Now she won't wake up." Jason explained the situation. "You need to get some of your doctors in here, now!"

Paul Song family had one too many hospitals, they had the biggest and best hospitals all across the country.

Paul moved closer to the unconscious woman on the bed, sitting beside her he touched her forehead quickly retracting his hands because of how hot she felt. He looked at Jason, and shook his head.

"This is bad Jason, she needs hospital, like ER right now. That fever isn't normal at all. If she is going to be alive she needs a hospital." He took his phone to call his hospital.

"I can't take her to any hospital Paul" Jason said curtly.

"Don't worry, I train my doctors well, they are discrete okay." Paul said looking at Jessie again. He tilted his head as he took in her features.

"What's wrong? Make the call!." Jason ordered.

"What did you say her name was?" Paul asked.

"How is that important right now?" Jason snapped.

"Just answer me, tell me Jason." Paul said firmly.

"Jessie. What is the problem?" He asked noticing Paul expression.

"Dude that's Jessie Marin." Jason gave him a blank look. "The nations goddess, Jessie Marin. The missing A-list actress."

Suddenly Jason recognized her as well, 'ah that's where I know her from, she was costars with Patricia on some movie' he thought.

Then the problem dawned on him.

"Shit! Shit, shit, shit!" He swore. "I swear if I find Goerge Lee I will kill him!"

"Me and you both bro, but what are we going to do? My doctors are discrete but not this discrete." Paul sighed.

"Isn't there any other option?" Jason asked.

"Well I say it's easier to just let her die and dump the body." Paul shrugged.

"You're Kidding right?" Jason frowned.

"I am not. You do realise what this will do to you if it comes out. What damage it will cause for you and you business. The entire nation and the cops are looking for this woman, if you happen to get caught, even if you eventually managed to get away from the law on this, everything about you is still going to come out into the open. Are you ready to explain Paradise to your father and the feds?"

Jason sighed looking from Jessie to Paul, weighing his options. He really barely knew this woman, and all the time she has been here she was nothing but trouble. He couldn't let his father get his hands on Paradise, he made a promise to his late mother. The only person he loved in this world.

Paul looked at his tortured friend. "It's your call bro."