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.”

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

hour later, Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance, where a

my grandfather

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

knew who Matthew Hilton was. He was a close friend of their director, Nicolas, and he had visited his grandfather at the hospital almost daily for the past six years. They admired

the nurse’s explanation

room. She hugged herself, with her toes

removed his coat and draped it over the woman before heading for

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

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

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

Matthew smirked and shook his

pulled his coat tighter around herself, reveling in the residual

and breathed in the faint,

elevator doors opened and out walked two young boys. The boy walking

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