Loriel let Elise cry on his chest for as long as she needed. Time seemed to stand still and there were only the two of them in the vacuum of space. The hospital staff left them be. They knew the daughter must need time to process her grief.
"Uncle! What happened to Uncle Danny?!!"
The gloomy atmosphere was suddenly ruined by the voice of Tessa who just arrived. The hospital staff called her parents to inform them that Mr. Daniel York had just passed away.
So, they immediately came to see him one last time.
Loriel winced in displeasure when he saw the wicked woman he hated appeared by the door. To his ears, her voice sounded like a rat screeching for getting stuck in a cheese trap. So annoying.
Tessa arrived with her father, Daniel York's brother, and mother. They all looked sad and had tears in their eyes.
"Where is my brother now?" Edward York asked the nurse with an urgent tone. "What happened?"