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Chapter: 339

“You’re heading to the hospital?” Marcus questioned, noting the encroaching twilight.

Millie affirmed with a nod, “Yes, my grandmother had a sleepless night plagued by pain. I must see to her.”

Marcus offered no further commentary but dutifully deposited Millie at the hospital before proceeding towards his own destination: the company.

Inside the hospital, Millie found her place beside her grandmother’s bed, her heart twisting painfully. The old woman slept, her forehead hot to the touch, signaling her discomfort.

Holding her grandmother’s aged, weathered hand in her soft grasp, Millie observed the marks of time imprinted on the palm, along with the disconcerting swell of puncture wounds from countless injections.

almost unbearable desire to bear those needle pricks in her grandmother’s stead. Holding back her tears, she whispered a plea. “Grandma, don’t leave

footsteps heralded Teresa’s arrival. Hastily, Millie swiped at her moist eyes,

present in the hospital. You might want to consult him about her condition,” Teresa

there immediately,” Millie acknowledged, quickly setting off to

didn’t the last prescribed medication manage to ease my grandmother’s pain? Why is she

with anxiety as she posed her query in the confines of the doctor’s

the fact of the matter is, the prescribed medication supply has been exhausted, and the patient ceased taking it yesterday,” the doctor

no longer stocks it? If so,

the doctor explained, “This particular drug is a novelty, a creation of a foreign pharmaceutical research center. Its

visibly taken

previously alluded to this narrative regarding the medication. She had been under the impression that the hospital