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.”

hardly going to leave the hospital without her daughter, though she still nodded and said,

Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance, where a waiting nurse greeted

is my

replied, “ Hector is still in a critical condition, Mr. Hilton. We need to observe him for twenty-four hours. The director has prepared a lounge for

He was a close friend of their director, Nicolas, and he had visited his grandfather at

the nurse’s explanation with

that a woman hunched over in the corner of the room. She hugged herself, with her toes curled and her head buried between her knees.

coat and draped it over the woman before heading for

broad back. She called out, “Thank you! How should I

elevator. Right before the doors closed, he said, “Keep it. I don’t know who’s ill, but you should

of concern for this stranger was out of character for Matthew. He was surprised by his own

elevator doors closed, Matthew smirked

pulled his coat tighter around herself, reveling in the residual warmth of his

breathed in the faint, pleasant scent

walking in front wore a black windbreaker, and he carried a

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

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