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.

thought it’d 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 ahead became indiscernible. It should be

a haunted house instead.

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

you to go?” Joseph asked as

threw it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some food.

“If you go to another escape room, you

why Joseph felt the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up.

for me.”

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

bills.”

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

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

of coldness.

his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container

eggs, steamed fish, and some soft-cooked

in long

before reaching the ward, she took a deep breath and asked the question

need to wait in line at the payment counter, and it usually took no more than five minutes to settle

voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After

turn out this

Chloe softly

the hell would have thought that she had gone for the

did not catch what she said, but he clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He pinched her cheek and asked, “What

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

her cheek which left

submissively appeased Joseph greatly. His anger abated, and he released his fingers from her

Grandpa

“But why?”

have something to

Joseph’s order to

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