29, PART TWO - I hate that I love you

The first hours felt like her body was dipped in hot and cold simultaneously. Care suffered from chills all over apparent through her teeth chattering. She nearly believed she was charcoal lit on a furnace. In her awake but upside down and dancing in waves vision, she watched Eli as he wiped her arms with a damp face towel in efforts to lower her 39.8℃ body temperature. It was the gentle strokes of his hand that lull her to sleep again. 

Her parched throat hurt, waking her up in the process. 

"Wa..ter." she mumbled.

Eli rose from his armchair and put his book down upon noticing the movement of her lips. He leaned in, kneeling at the bedside. She unintentionally swallowed her remaining saliva due to his strong misty scent invading her nostrils and luring her to nuzzle into the crook o