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.

needle pricks in her grandmother’s stead. Holding back her tears, she whispered a plea. “Grandma, don’t leave me. You must recover soon. I will find a way to heal you. Just like you always emboldened me

of approaching footsteps heralded Teresa’s arrival. Hastily, Millie swiped at her moist eyes, tucking her grandmother’s hand back beneath the warm

physician still present in the

acknowledged, quickly setting off to locate

didn’t the last prescribed medication manage to ease

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

the matter is, the prescribed medication supply has been exhausted, and the patient ceased taking it

depleted. Does that imply the hospital no longer stocks it? If so, please procure it

a foreign pharmaceutical research center. Its production is extremely limited, making domestic acquisition

left Millie visibly taken aback.

alluded to this narrative regarding

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