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.”

her daughter, though she still

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

is my

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

was a close friend of their director, Nicolas, and he had visited his grandfather at the

explanation with a nod. “I

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

his coat and draped it over the woman

his broad back. She called out,

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

for this stranger was out of character

closed, Matthew smirked and

reveling in

and breathed in the faint, pleasant scent lingering

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

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

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