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 she still nodded and said,

later, Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance, where a waiting nurse greeted

is my

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

a close friend of their director, Nicolas, and he had visited his grandfather at the hospital almost daily for the past six years. They admired

explanation with

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

coat and draped it over

her head, her gaze fixed on his broad back. She called out,

closed, he said, “Keep it. I don’t know who’s ill, but you should keep yourself healthy while taking care of

concern for this stranger was out of character for Matthew. He was surprised by

closed, Matthew smirked and

herself, reveling

sniffed and breathed in the faint, pleasant scent lingering on

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

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

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