Chapter 108 Night Call

• Phone calls from a hospital or even a nursing home, especially ones that came in the wee hours of the night would most often than not, cause panic among the receivers of such calls. Calls like this immediately threw one into a dire state of panic and had a way of causing one’s heart to pound, at least until the cause of the call was ascertained. Ryan for one, with all that he had been through, ever since people around him started dying, starting from his parents, his sister, her husband, and then her two vulnerable babies being hospitalized and at the brink of death, totally hated anything that had to do with hospitals.
• So when his phone began to ring in the middle of the night, and he saw that the call was coming from the nursing home in which his ex-wife’s aged grandparents lived, his heart started the now familiar pounding that it usually got when he got any calls from a hospital. He had not known Becca’s grandparents for very long, but in the short time that he knew them, they were very fond of him. He hadn’t gone to see them since he divorced their granddaughter either, as he imagined that they must be disappointed at the dissolution of the marriage.
• “Hello?” He said into the phone hesitantly, wondering why he was being called. He would have thought that Becca would give instructions for him not to be contacted in case of any emergencies.