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.”

to leave the hospital without her daughter, though

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

is my

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

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

the nurse’s explanation with a

that, and he noticed 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

removed his coat and draped it over the woman before heading

her head, her gaze fixed on his broad back.

doors closed, he said, “Keep it. I

show of concern for this stranger was out of character for Matthew.

doors closed, Matthew smirked

his coat tighter around herself, reveling in the

sniffed and breathed in the faint, pleasant scent lingering on

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

cap trailed him, a pair of

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