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.”

later, Patrick arrived at the ICU entrance, where a waiting nurse greeted

is my grandfather

Lowen is still in a critical condition, Mr. Lowen. We need to observe him for twenty-four hours. The director has prepared a lounge for

was a close friend of their director, Kevin, and he had visited his grandfather at the hospital almost daily for the past six years.

explanation with a nod. “I

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

removed his coat and draped it over the

lifted her head, her gaze fixed on his broad back. She called out,

I don't know

was out of character for Patrick. He was surprised by his

Patrick smirked and

herself, reveling in the

faint, pleasant scent

opened and out walked two young boys. The boy walking in front wore a black windbreaker, and he

boy wearing a gray and white-striped baseball uniform and cap trailed him, a pair

extremely handsome. They looked so alike that anyone could tell they were

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