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, though she still nodded and said,

arrived at the ICU entrance, where

is my

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

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

acknowledged the nurse’s explanation with

corner of the room. She hugged herself, with her toes curled and her head buried between her

over the woman before heading for the

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

“Keep it. I don’t know who’s ill, but you should keep yourself healthy while

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

doors closed, Matthew smirked and shook his

around herself, reveling in the residual

the faint, pleasant scent lingering on the

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

white-striped baseball uniform and cap

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