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.

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

a haunted

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

hold a knife to your throat and force you to go?” Joseph asked

threw it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some food. I haven’t eaten

another escape

argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between

for me.”

her retreating figure, Joseph handed the peeled apple to Harold. “I’ll go settle the

bills.”

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

well-fitted suit accentuated his tall and slender

of coldness.

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

that serves home-style dishes. I bought some poached eggs, steamed fish, and some soft-cooked grains. Is that okay?” Chloe

striding forward in long strides and

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

more than five minutes to settle the bill.

ear. “Yes. After all, you have a tendency to run away when you’re unhappy.”

turn out this way. I just couldn’t control my

softly

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

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

it was not the appropriate moment to

him pinch her cheek which left behind a faint red welt.

His anger abated, and he released

Grandpa and then come

“But why?”

have something to tell

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

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