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.

it’d be like playing hide-and-seek, like what we did back in the war. But once we stepped inside,

a haunted house instead.

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

your throat and force you to go?” Joseph

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

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

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

for me.”

Joseph handed the peeled apple to Harold.

bills.”

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

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

of coldness.

gaze. His gaze shifted to

eggs, steamed fish,

nodded, striding forward in long strides

the ward, she took a deep breath and asked the question that had been lingering in her mind, “Were

line at the payment counter, and it usually took no more than five minutes to settle the bill. He had no reason

pausing, Joseph’s magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all,

to turn out this way. I just couldn’t control my

Chloe softly retorted.

the hell would have thought that she

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

not the appropriate moment to argue with Joseph, so

her cheek which left behind a faint red

head submissively appeased Joseph greatly. His anger abated,

Grandpa

“But why?”

to

Joseph’s order to bring the food to Harold.

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