LOGINHailey had betrayed her husband, killed her own child, and took care of another man’s son for ten years. In the end, to Seth, she was nothing but an organ bank. Her mind snapped as she lost her rationality. Hailey lay on the bloodied floor as she started to seize. The smell of blood agitated her as her pupils dilated. She started hallucinating. She stared at the dead body on the operating table in a daze. Charlie’s pale face slowly twisted in her eyes. The heart belonged to Jayden. Suddenly, Charlie’s body turned into Jayden. Jayden also lay in the cold morgue ten years ago with a huge hole in his chest. He looked down at his empty chest and walked toward Hailey.“Mommy…”Jayden’s voice echoed in the operating room. “Mommy, why didn’t you save me…?“Why did you dig my heart out…?”“Ah!” Hailey shrieked and the last bit of hope dimmed in her eyes. She crawled over and grabbed the sharp scalpel from the floor. “Mommy’s saving you now.” She turned around
Three days later, in an illegal clinic in a developing country, Charlie’s chest was cut open on the operating table. The heart that originally belonged to Jayden beat slowly and desperately in that bloodied mess. The underground doctor, Justin White, did not care about Charlie’s failing body. He simply wanted to earn that fifty million dollars. He frantically grabbed a faulty artificial heart from an unknown source and connected it to Charlie’s aorta.The artificial heart was not even the right size. It was just a broken tool put together with some scraps that Justin had used to scam Hailey for her money. At the same time, I sat in my brightly lit lab. I calmly answered the call from another medical fellow as I heard the news about Hailey resorting to the black market. As I flipped through the lab data, I did not even bat an eyelid. Once the artificial heart was implanted, it required a very strict sterile environment and my patented nano-technology anastomosis procedure
Rain mixed with muddy water as it splashed against Hailey’s once arrogant face. From a near distance, Seth saw his last hope vanish. Then, he tore his pretentious mask off his face. “Idiot! Useless! How could you not even get a man’s heart!” Seth kept hitting Hailey’s back with his cane. “Doesn’t Damien hate you?“Strip yourself naked and beg him!“Let him sleep with you!“Use that to bargain with him to save Charlie’s life!”Hailey was covered in bruises from Seth’s attack. She covered her face and took out her phone that only had 3% battery left. “Damien… I was wrong. I’ve really learned from my mistakes. “I’ve been having nightmares over the past ten years. I truly love you, Damien!“As long as you save Charlie, I’ll immediately cut Seth off.“Charlie’s still young. We can start over as a family of three, alright?“I’ll let him call you Dad and ask him to take care of you when you’re older. Just pretend… like Jayden is still here with us…”On the other end of t
Within two hours, I had issued the statement to halt the collaboration with Anderson Corporation. Everyone in the industry was afraid that I would no longer work with them, so they started to boycott Anderson Corporation. A lot of businesses started withdrawing their investments and pressed for payments. The Anderson family mansion was immediately surrounded by debt collectors. Anderson Corporation’s stocks went down by a landslide. Without the money, they could not afford the tens of thousands of dollars of ICU fees every single day for Charlie. Outside the expensive ward, Seth no longer looked gentle as he did before. His eyes were vicious as he tugged on Hailey’s hair, then slammed her against the wall. “If you don’t have money, go and raise some! Why aren’t you selling off the very last bit of shares you have? Are you willing to watch Charlie die?“If you’ve sold off all your shares, then go and sell your blood! Your kidney! Are you not willing to sacrifice an organ
Hailey sat on the floor and covered her ears. She kept shaking her head. “No… It’s not like that.” I looked at her pathetic plight as my smile slowly turned cold. “I rushed back to the hospital with the three hundred thousand dollars I managed to borrow. The doctor said with that money, they would be able to put him on an important machine.“There was a 60% chance that Jayden would be able to make it. But you took him off the machine and forced the doctor to take his heart.” I pulled a chair over and sat down calmly.“Hailey, when it’s late at night, do you hear Jayden’s cries?”Hailey was trembling violently. After a momentary lapse of fear, the greed and calculative nature in her gained the upper hand again. “I’m sorry, Damien. I was blinded back then.”She suddenly stood up and grabbed my arm tightly “But that’s in the past! The heart that’s beating in Charlie’s chest belongs to Jayden!“Do you really want to see Jayden’s heart die again?“As long as you save Charl
The office fell silent. The crowd slowly retreated when they saw how serious I was. Hailey trembled furiously as she instinctively protected Charlie by throwing herself over him. Seth, who was in the wheelchair, completely lost it. He screamed, “Call the police! Hailey, quick, call the police and get this madman detained!” I looked at Seth expressionlessly. “Oh, please do. It’s better if the police’s here.“They could also look into the heart in Charlie’s chest and learn how it was delivered to his operating table without going through the organ matching system.” After I said that, blood drained out of Seth’s face. Hailey froze. “What… are you talking about?“We got that heart legally. It’s from a dying child, and the child’s parent signed it.” Hailey suddenly raised her voice to mask the guilt. “Signed by a parent?”I silently wiped my fingers with disinfectant. I chuckled. “Hailey, during that stormy night ten years ago, when you signed the agreement to give







