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.

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

a haunted

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

you to

bedside table and threw it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some

bounced off Joseph harmlessly, and he chuckled. “If you go to another escape room, you

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

for me.”

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

bills.”

already closed at this hour, so Chloe made her way to a restaurant situated across the street and ordered a few light dishes and a

suit accentuated his tall and slender physique. His

of coldness.

warmth could be detected in his gaze. His

dishes. I bought some poached eggs, steamed fish, and some soft-cooked grains. Is that

striding forward in long strides

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

and it usually took no more than five minutes to settle the bill. He had no reason to stay

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 just couldn’t

Chloe softly

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

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

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

from retorting and let him pinch her cheek

His anger abated, and

food to Grandpa

“But why?”

something to tell

to bring

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