Triplets Attack: Game Over Daddy

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.”

was hardly going to leave the hospital without her daughter, though she still nodded

hour later, Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance, where

is my

the files in her hand and replied, “ Hector is still in a critical condition, Mr. Hilton. We

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

nurse’s explanation with a nod.

over in the corner of the room. She hugged herself, with

removed his coat and draped it over the woman before heading for

his broad back. She

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

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

the elevator doors closed, Matthew smirked and shook his

around herself, reveling in the residual

sniffed and breathed in the faint, pleasant scent lingering on the

opened and out walked two young boys. The boy walking in front wore a black windbreaker, and he carried

gray and white-striped baseball uniform and cap trailed him, a pair of snow boots