Triplets Attack: Game Over Daddy

Chapter 3 Heartache

Hector had barely finished his sentence when the patient monitor began to beep.

Matthew replied, “I heard you, Grandpa. I’ll marry the eldest daughter of the Wade family.”

He wanted to reassure his grandfather.

Nicolas and some hospital staff had arrived then and began giving him emergency treatment. They eventually wheeled Hector to the ICU.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth frantically peppered the ICU staff with questions.

“When can my daughter leave the ICU? Can I go in to accompany her?”

Her anxiety was palpable, and her eyes reddened, threatened by a fresh wave of tears.

The nurse answered, “She needs to stay in the hospital overnight for observation. You can come back in twenty-four hours. We’ll take good care of her.”

the hospital without her daughter, though she still nodded

hour later, Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance,

is my grandfather

replied, “ Hector is still in a critical condition, Mr. Hilton. We

director, Nicolas, and he had visited his grandfather at the hospital almost daily

nurse’s explanation with a nod.

of the room. She hugged herself, with her toes curled and her head buried between her

draped it over the woman before

her head, her gaze fixed on his broad back. She called out, “Thank you! How should

stepped into the elevator. Right before the doors closed, he said, “Keep it. I don’t know who’s ill, but you should keep yourself healthy while taking care

of concern for this stranger was out of character for Matthew. He

elevator doors closed, Matthew smirked and

reveling in the residual warmth

the faint, pleasant

out walked two young boys. The boy walking in front

white-striped baseball uniform and cap trailed him, a pair of snow