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

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

my

in a critical condition, Mr. Hilton. We need to observe him for twenty-four hours. The director has prepared

hospital staff 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

the nurse’s explanation with a

corner of the room. She hugged

it over the woman before

fixed on his broad back. She called

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

character

closed, Matthew smirked and

pulled his coat tighter around herself, reveling in

breathed in the faint, pleasant

boys. The boy walking in front wore a black windbreaker, and he carried a long, white down

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

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