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.”

leave the hospital without her daughter, though she still nodded

hour later, Matthew arrived at the ICU

my grandfather

“ Hector is still in a critical condition, Mr. Hilton. We need to observe him

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

nurse’s explanation

he noticed that a woman hunched over in the corner of the room. She hugged herself, with

coat and draped it over the

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

the doors closed, he said, “Keep it. I

out of character

elevator doors closed, Matthew smirked and shook

coat tighter around herself, reveling in the residual

and breathed in the faint,

young boys. The boy walking in front wore

boy wearing a gray and white-striped baseball uniform and cap trailed him, a pair

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