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 we stepped inside, darkness engulfed us, and the path ahead became indiscernible.

a haunted house

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

knife to your throat and force you to go?” Joseph

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 starve to

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

Joseph felt the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between them, she offered, “I’ll go buy some

for me.”

Joseph handed the peeled apple

bills.”

at this hour, so Chloe made her way to a restaurant situated across the street and

to the hospital, Chloe encountered Joseph in the main lobby. His well-fitted suit accentuated his tall and slender physique. His eyebrows arched slightly, giving off

of coldness.

could be detected in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container in her

dishes. I bought some poached eggs,

nodded, striding forward in long

before reaching the ward, she took a deep breath and asked the question that had been lingering in her mind, “Were you waiting for me

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

magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes.

not… I didn’t intend for things to turn out this way.

softly retorted.

have thought that she had gone

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

Chloe realized it was not the appropriate moment to

pinch her cheek which left behind a faint

His anger abated, and he

food to Grandpa

“But why?”

something to tell

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

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