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.

we did back in the war. But once we stepped inside, darkness engulfed us, and the path ahead became indiscernible.

haunted house instead.

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

you to go?”

Go buy me some food. I haven’t eaten all day, and I’m about

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

argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between them, she

for me.”

peeled apple to Harold. “I’ll

bills.”

was already closed at this hour, so Chloe made her way to a restaurant situated across the street and ordered a few light dishes and a

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

of coldness.

warmth could be detected in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container in her

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

striding forward in long strides and taking

ward, she took a deep breath and asked the

more than five minutes to settle the

Joseph’s magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a tendency to run away when you’re

turn out this

softly retorted.

she had gone for

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

the appropriate moment to argue

her cheek which left behind a faint

appeased Joseph greatly. His

food to Grandpa and then come out.”

“But why?”

something to tell you.”

Joseph’s order to bring the food

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