Hector had barely finished his sentence when the patient monitor began to beep.

Patrick replied, “I heard you, Grandpa. I'll marry the eldest daughter of the Ashton family.”

He wanted to reassure his grandfather.

Kevin and some hospital staff had arrived then and began giving him emergency treatment. They eventually wheeled Hector to the ICU.

Meanwhile, Gwendolyn 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.”

Gwendolyn was hardly going to leave the hospital without her daughter, though she still nodded and said, “Thank you.”

at the ICU entrance, where a waiting nurse

is my grandfather

a critical condition,

director, Kevin, and he had visited his grandfather at the hospital almost daily for the

nurse's explanation with a nod. “I

a woman hunched over in the corner of the room. She hugged herself, with her toes curled and her head buried

removed his coat and draped it over the woman before heading for

her gaze fixed on his broad back. She called out, “Thank you! How should I

elevator. Right before the doors closed, he said, “Keep it. I don't know who's ill, but you should keep yourself healthy while taking

of concern for this stranger was out of character for Patrick. He was surprised by his own

elevator doors closed, Patrick smirked and shook his

herself, reveling in the residual warmth of his

sniffed and breathed in the faint, pleasant scent

walking

and cap trailed him, a

chiseled features, both boys were extremely handsome. They looked so alike that

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