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.

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 should

haunted house instead.

intricate traps and mechanisms. A skeleton abruptly emerged from the wall, and if Harold had

you to go?”

grabbed the tissue box from the bedside table and threw it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some food. I

go to another escape room, you won’t have to eat for the rest of your life.”

the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between them, she

for me.”

the peeled apple to Harold. “I’ll go settle

bills.”

way to a restaurant situated across

well-fitted suit accentuated his tall and slender physique. His eyebrows arched slightly, giving

of coldness.

could be detected in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container in her hand, and he asked, What did you

some poached eggs,

nodded, striding forward in long strides

took a deep breath and asked the

no more than five minutes to settle the bill.

stride without pausing, Joseph’s magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a tendency

turn

Chloe softly retorted.

thought that she had gone for the

he clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He pinched her cheek

appropriate moment to argue with Joseph,

him pinch her cheek which left behind a faint

Joseph greatly. His anger abated, and he released his fingers from her cheek.

Grandpa

“But why?”

to tell

obediently complied. She followed Joseph’s order to bring the

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