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.

war. But once we stepped inside, darkness engulfed us, and the path ahead

haunted house instead.

mechanisms. A skeleton abruptly emerged from the wall, and if Harold had been aware that it

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

some

tissue box bounced off Joseph harmlessly, and he chuckled. “If you go to another escape room, you won’t have to

after he woke up. Stepping in between them, she offered,

for me.”

at her retreating figure, Joseph handed the peeled apple to Harold.

bills.”

made her way to a restaurant situated across the street and ordered a few light

suit accentuated

of coldness.

detected in his gaze.

serves home-style dishes. I bought some poached eggs,

in long strides and taking

breath and asked the question that had been

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

“Yes. After all, you have a tendency to run away when

intend for things to turn out this way. I just couldn’t control my

softly retorted.

the hell would have thought that she

clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He

not the appropriate moment to

pinch her cheek which left

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

Grandpa and

“But why?”

have something to

to bring the food to Harold.

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