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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.

heart, filling her with an 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 me. You must recover soon. I will find a

her vision blurred with unshed tears. The sound of approaching footsteps heralded Teresa’s arrival. Hastily, Millie swiped at her moist eyes, tucking her grandmother’s hand back beneath the warm

in the hospital. You might want

there immediately,” Millie acknowledged, quickly

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

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

medication supply has been exhausted,

supply is depleted. Does that imply the hospital no longer stocks it? If so,

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

mention of Mr. Thomas left Millie visibly taken aback. “Mr. Thomas arranged

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