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.

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.

a haunted

A skeleton abruptly emerged from the wall, and if Harold

you to go?” Joseph asked as he peeled an

some food. I haven’t eaten all day, and I’m about to

chuckled. “If you go to another escape room, you won’t have to eat

not fathom why Joseph felt the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between

for me.”

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

bills.”

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

His well-fitted suit accentuated his tall and slender physique.

of coldness.

in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container

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

nodded, striding forward in long strides and

breath and asked the question that had been lingering in her

more than five minutes to settle the bill. He had no reason to stay in the lobby.

his stride without pausing, Joseph’s magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a

to turn out this way. I just

Chloe softly

who the hell would have thought that she had gone for the wrong

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

realized it was not the appropriate moment

cheek

His anger abated, and he released his fingers from her cheek.

Grandpa and then come out.”

“But why?”

have something to tell you.”

complied. She followed Joseph’s order to

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