His Housewife Had Secret Identities novel Chapter 298

The moment the subject came up, Niamh couldn’t help but glance at Jonathan. Her eyes were rimmed red.

Jonathan’s face showed no emotion. Still, his grip on the mug tightened until his fingernails dug painfully into his palm.

“It was Jonathan himself who ended that child’s life... He’s also the reason I can never have children again—he’s the one who damaged my uterus beyond repair...”

Crash!

From the front door of the house came the sharp clatter of something hard hitting the polished wooden floor, snapping everyone’s attention to the entryway.

“Grandpa!”

Jonathan shot up from the couch.

Niamh never expected Clifford to show up at Verdant Lake Estates. Much less at this exact moment, just as she was saying those words.

“Nia... Did you... Is what you just said true?”

Clifford’s eyes were wide with disbelief, his entire body trembling.

“Jonathan was the one who... who killed your child? And he... he made it so you can never—”

Before he could finish, Clifford clutched his chest with a strangled cry.

“Grandpa!”

Niamh reached him first, steadying his collapsing body. She quickly fished a bottle of nitroglycerin tablets from his coat and slipped one beneath his tongue.

Meanwhile, Jonathan was already on the phone, dialing 911.

Because of the snow, the ambulance took a little longer to arrive. When it finally did, Clifford was rushed to Harmony General Hospital.

His situation was dire—he needed an emergency heart bypass. The procedure was risky.

Sprague, agitated, refused to let just any local doctor handle it.

Clifford was the backbone of the Thomas family. Nothing could be left to chance.

“Didn’t we have a world-class cardiologist from Aldonia? What was his name—?”

“Nestor Benson.”

Niamh’s voice cut through the tense hush of the hospital corridor. It was the first time she’d spoken since Clifford had been wheeled away.

Sprague’s glare toward Niamh intensified. If it hadn’t been for her big mouth, Clifford wouldn’t be on an operating table fighting for his life.

“If anything happens to the old man—”

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