“ Pa, pa!” With desperation, Eloise ran across the hospital wing. What the doctor said all over the phone rang in her head all over again —ICU…Cardiac arrest.

“ Ah,” she whimpered shakily as she ran, “ Grandfather.”

Cold slapped her feet as she checked the wards barefooted, but couldn't find him nor the doctor. She had run out of the house with nothing on her feet, didn't notice Antonio's calls or how he was rushing along with her and trying to grab her.

Each step of hers echoed with desperation, her heartbeat racing faster than her pace, as though the rhythm was urging her to reach him before it...