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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.

desire to bear those 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 to stand strong in my younger days,

tears. The sound of approaching footsteps heralded Teresa’s arrival. Hastily, Millie swiped at

the hospital.

immediately,” Millie acknowledged,

prescribed medication manage to ease my grandmother’s pain? Why is she suffering

voice was laced with anxiety as she posed her query in the

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

longer stocks it? If so, please procure it posthaste,” Millie blurted

his head, the doctor explained, “This particular drug is a novelty, a creation of a foreign pharmaceutical research center. Its production is extremely limited, making domestic acquisition impossible. The previous supply was provided specifically for your grandmother’s treatment

Thomas left Millie visibly taken

doctor had never previously alluded to this narrative regarding the medication. She had been under