The Heir Who Quit Luxury novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Deathbed
The ambulance was in the drive when we got there, lights turning blue across the gray stone.
It wasn't going anywhere.
Two paramedics stood by the open back doors with nothing to do.
"He won't go," one of them told me. "He's got the paperwork. No hospital, no tubes. He wrote 'no' on his pad four times and underlined it."
"That sounds like him."
Frankie squeezed my hand and stayed in the front hall under the portrait.
"Go," she said. "I'll be right here."
"It could be hours."
"I know where I've heard that before," she said. "Go."
The nurse took me upstairs.
My grandfather's bedroom was bigger than my mother's whole house.
There was a fire going.
There was a hospital bed where his real bed should have been, and a heart monitor beeping softly, and the silver-headed cane leaning on the nightstand.
Hollis looked like paper.
Both sides of his face had fallen now.
His right hand still moved.
He lifted it an inch off the blanket when he saw me.
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