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

a haunted

traps and mechanisms. A skeleton abruptly emerged from the wall, and if Harold had been aware that it was merely a prop, he would not

you to go?” Joseph asked as

it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some food. I haven’t eaten all day, and I’m about to starve to death because of you, you

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

need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke

for me.”

handed the peeled apple to Harold.

bills.”

this hour, so Chloe made her way to a restaurant situated across the street and ordered a few light dishes and a nutritious soup.

suit accentuated his tall and slender physique. His eyebrows arched

of coldness.

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

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

nodded, striding forward in long strides and taking

behind him. Just before reaching the ward, she took a deep breath and asked the question that had been lingering in her mind,

and it usually took no more

magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a

things to turn out this

softly

hell would have thought that she had gone for the wrong person from the

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

it was not the appropriate moment to argue with

him pinch her cheek which

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

the food to Grandpa and then

“But why?”

to tell you.”

to bring the food

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