Hazel's POV
"Richard," I said, my voice breaking as I burst through the hospital doors, Grace crying in my arms from the sudden rush of movement. "What happened?"
A nurse guided us quickly toward a private waiting room, where Julian was already pacing, his face ashen in a way I had rarely seen. "He collapsed at home," Julian said, pulling me and Grace into a tight embrace. "The housekeeper found him and called for help immediately. The doctors are running tests now."
"Is it his heart," I asked, fear tightening around my chest.
"They believe so," Julian said quietly. "They are calling it a moderate heart attack. He is stable, but they want to keep him for observation."
A nurse brought us water we did not drink, and somewhere down the hallway a monitor beeped steadily, indifferent to th
