new dad and a threat or so he thinks

The hero is so afraid of loosing his son (that he just found out was his by the heroine's step mother) that he doesn't let her see her exstranged father who is in the hosptial. Found that very disturbing. She came all the way to recosile with him and may not get to do so cause her father is critical, and she wimpiningly agrees. Would have gone to the hospital anyway.