Chapter 112 Heart Attack

“Grandpa just had a heart attack. Come to the hospital now.”

Chloe’s pupils instantly constricted. Without thinking about anything else, she immediately agreed, “Okay.”

Forty minutes later, she arrived at the hospital. Through the glass window, she could see

Harold lying in the emergency room with an oxygen tube inserted into his nose and a pale face.

devoid of color.

This sight made Chloe’s heart tighten. “Why did Grandpa suddenly have a heart attack?”

Joseph remained expressionless and said, “He went to play an escape room with some friends, and he got frightened.”

“That’s it?”

“Mm-hm.”

“Sigh…” Chloe touched her nose and replied, “Grandpa still has the heart of a child.”

“Where are the family members of the patient? The patient has awakened,” a nurse said as she emerged from the ward.

Joseph glanced at Chloe. “Let’s go in.”

“Okay.”

The two of them entered the ward one after the other. When Harold saw them, a gentle smile graced his aging face. “I’m fine. Patrick was just being paranoid in calling you two here.”

Chloe pursed her lips and coaxed him like a child, “Grandpa, you shouldn’t go to escape rooms

anymore.”

Flushed with embarrassment, Harold shot an annoyed glare at Joseph before clearing his

throat. “Fine, fine. I won’t go anymore. This is the fault of those old comrades of mine. They wanted to keep up with the latest trends, so they suggested we give an escape room a try for

some fun.

it’d be like playing hide-and-seek, like what we did back in the war. But once we stepped inside, darkness engulfed us, and the path ahead became indiscernible. It

a haunted house

from the wall, and if Harold

your throat and force you to go?” Joseph asked as he peeled an apple.

Go buy me some food. I haven’t eaten all day,

you go to another escape room, you won’t have to eat for

fathom why Joseph felt the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between them,

for me.”

at her retreating figure, Joseph handed the peeled apple to Harold. “I’ll go settle the

bills.”

so Chloe made her way to a restaurant situated across the street

Chloe encountered Joseph in the main lobby. His well-fitted suit

of coldness.

remained unchanged as he glanced at Chloe, a subtle warmth could be detected in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container in her hand,

small eatery that serves home-style dishes. I bought some poached eggs, steamed fish, and some soft-cooked

striding forward in long strides

the ward, she took a deep breath and asked the question that had been lingering in her mind, “Were

line at the payment counter, and it usually took no more than five minutes to settle the bill. He had no reason to

pausing, Joseph’s magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a tendency to run away

things to turn out this way. I

softly retorted.

would have thought that she had

what she said, but he clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He pinched her cheek and asked, “What

it was not the appropriate moment to argue with Joseph,

from retorting and let him pinch her cheek which left behind a faint red

head submissively appeased Joseph greatly. His anger abated, and he released his

the food to Grandpa and then come

“But why?”

something to

to

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