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.”

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

an hour later, Matthew arrived at the ICU entrance, where a

is my grandfather

critical condition,

and he had visited his grandfather

the nurse’s explanation with a nod. “I

around after 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

his coat and draped it over the woman before

broad back. She called out, “Thank you! How should I return your

I

for this stranger was out of character for Matthew. He was surprised by his own actions

Matthew smirked and shook

tighter around herself, reveling in the residual warmth

the faint,

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

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

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