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.”

the hospital without her daughter, though she still nodded and said,

at the ICU entrance, where

is my grandfather

is still in a critical condition, Mr.

a close friend of their director, Nicolas, and he had visited his grandfather at the hospital almost daily for

acknowledged the nurse’s explanation with a nod. “I

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

draped it over the woman before

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

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

character for Matthew. He was

the elevator doors closed, Matthew smirked and shook

herself, reveling in the residual

in the faint, pleasant scent lingering

two young boys. The boy walking in front wore a black windbreaker,

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

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