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.”

without her daughter,

Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance, where

is my

in a critical condition, Mr. Hilton. We

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

nurse’s explanation with a nod. “I

around after that, and he noticed 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. It was a

over

lifted her head, her gaze fixed on his broad back.

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

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

elevator doors closed, Matthew smirked and shook his

reveling in the residual warmth of

the faint,

The boy walking in front wore

cap trailed him, a pair of snow boots in

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