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.

we did back in the war. But once we stepped inside, darkness engulfed us, and the path

a haunted house instead.

from the wall, and if

you to go?” Joseph asked as he peeled

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

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

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

for me.”

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

bills.”

at this hour, so Chloe made her way to a restaurant

returning to the hospital, Chloe encountered Joseph in the main lobby. His well-fitted suit accentuated his

of coldness.

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

poached eggs, steamed

in long strides and taking the lead.

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

more than five minutes to settle the bill. He had

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

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

softly

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

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

realized it was not the appropriate moment to argue with Joseph,

pinch her cheek which left behind a

way she lowered her head submissively appeased Joseph greatly. His anger

to Grandpa

“But why?”

something to tell you.”

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

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