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 stepped inside, darkness engulfed us, and the path ahead became indiscernible. It

haunted

the wall, and

a knife to your throat and force you to go?” Joseph asked as he peeled an

box from the bedside table and threw it at him. “Shut up! Go buy me some

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

the need to argue with Harold immediately after he woke up. Stepping in between

for me.”

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

bills.”

hospital cafeteria 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 nutritious

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

of coldness.

Joseph’s expression remained unchanged as he glanced at Chloe, a subtle warmth could be detected in his gaze. His gaze shifted to the food container

I bought some poached eggs, steamed fish, and some

nodded, striding forward in long strides and taking the

closely behind him. Just before reaching the ward, she took a deep breath and asked the

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

magnetic voice brushed past her ear. “Yes. After all, you have a tendency to run away

for things to turn out this way. I

Chloe softly retorted.

thought that she had gone for

she said, but he clearly knew it was something unpleasant. He

not the appropriate

let him pinch her cheek which left behind a

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

food to Grandpa and

“But why?”

have something to tell you.”

to

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