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.

hide-and-seek, like what we did back in the war. But once

haunted house instead.

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

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

tissue box from the bedside table and threw it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some food. I haven’t eaten all day, and I’m about to

he chuckled. “If you go to another escape room, you won’t have

he woke up. Stepping in between them, she

for me.”

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

bills.”

cafeteria was already closed at this hour, so Chloe made her way to a restaurant situated

main lobby. His well-fitted suit accentuated his

of coldness.

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

eggs, steamed fish, and some soft-cooked grains. Is that okay?”

in long strides and

ward, she took a deep breath and asked the question that had been lingering

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

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

not… I didn’t intend for things to turn

Chloe softly

all, who the hell would have thought that she had gone for

not catch what she said, but he clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He pinched her cheek and asked, “What are you mumbling

was not the appropriate moment to argue with Joseph,

from retorting and let him pinch her cheek

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

Grandpa and then come out.”

“But why?”

have something to tell

followed Joseph’s order to bring the food to Harold.

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