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.

But once we

haunted

more, the room had been filled with intricate traps and mechanisms. A skeleton abruptly emerged from the wall, and if Harold had been aware that it was merely

your throat and force you

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

to another escape

the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between them, she offered, “I’ll

for me.”

handed the peeled apple to

bills.”

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

well-fitted suit accentuated his tall and slender physique. His eyebrows arched slightly,

of coldness.

unchanged as he glanced at Chloe, a subtle warmth could be detected in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container in her hand, and he asked,

poached eggs,

striding forward in long strides and

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

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

without pausing, Joseph’s magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a tendency to run away

turn out this way. I

Chloe softly

that she had gone for the wrong person from the get-go?

not catch what she said, but he clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He pinched

appropriate moment to argue with Joseph,

from retorting and let him pinch her cheek which

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

to Grandpa and

“But why?”

something to tell

to bring the food

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