All Chapters of My Wife Gave My Son’s Heart To Her Friend’s Son: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

“Dr. Scott, he’s from the Parker family.” My assistant, Finn Reid, stared at that red cross intently as his voice trembled. Both of his hands were pressing against the edge of my desk. “Hailey has said that the surgery fee isn’t a problem.“As long as you’re willing to take the case, she’s willing to sponsor the hospital research fee for the entire year.” I did not look at him. I stared intently at the name under my red cross, Charlie Parker. It had been ten years. His name was not just written on that paper. It was also carved in my heart. Ten years ago on that fateful stormy night, the light in the morgue had been blindingly white as a cold wind blew across my face. I pushed the heavy metal door open. My son, Jayden Smith, lay there with a white cloth covering his body. I flipped the white cloth open and saw a dent in Jayden’s chest. The long stitches were terrifying to look at. His heart was gone. Dried blood remained on his chest. I folded his applicati

Chapter 2

Ten minutes later, the hospital CEO, Walter Brown, barged into my office. He was panting after running, and his forehead was covered with sweat. He held a fax document in his hand. “River, what are you doing?”Walter slammed the document against my table. “The Parker family has already gotten a permit for the medical helicopter. Soon, they’ll arrive at the helipad on the top floor.” I continued to write my medical report without any sign of stopping. “Walter, I have surgeries lined up for the next three years. I won’t allow anyone to skip the queue.” Walter was extremely antsy as he rubbed his hands. “But rules don’t have a pulse, and the child does.“Do you know who the Parker family is? They have just promised us that as long as you’re operating on Charlie, they’ll give us that plot of land in the city center for free!“The entire board is going crazy over this offer.“River, I know the past ten years have been difficult for you. You did nothing else but focus on im

Chapter 3

“Technician?” I repeated her words as I looked past her to stare at the stretcher. Charlie lay there. His face was pale and purplish, and he wore an oxygen mask. His breathing was short and rapid. Jayden’s heart lived within his heaving chest. It belonged to my blood. “Hailey, when you got Charlie’s donated heart, did you consider the possibility of a transplant rejection?”I stared at her and said softly. Hailey frowned and glared sharply at me. “What do you mean? You’re a doctor. Stop meddling into the patient’s personal life.“Charlie’s meant to live, that’s why God gave him that heart as a gift.“Even if there’s transplant rejection, it happens in medicine. We just need you to implant the artificial heart for him to get through this so he can live.” “A gift from God?”I laughed through my mask.Hailey’s face completely fell when she heard my laugh. She raised her hand and wanted to slap me. I grabbed her wrist tightly. “Ah!” She screamed in pain as co

Chapter 4

“River, I’m begging you, please.” Walter suddenly stepped forward and grabbed my arm tightly. He started to tear up. “Ms. Anderson will really carry her words out. If she stops the supply for the specialized medication, dozens of patients with congenital heart diseases in the ICU will die tomorrow!” Desperate cries suddenly exploded outside of my office. A few family members of the patients heard the news and charged into my office, ignoring the security guards’ attempts in stopping them. “Dr. Scott, I’m begging you, please save that child! You’re saving our lives too!” “You can’t let the child die! You’re a doctor!” Someone even charged forward to grab my white coat. “Is your heart made out of stone? Just because of your own pride, you’re willing to let a dozen patients die?”Finn could not help but cry. He collapsed onto the floor and was not willing to stand back up. “Dr. Scott, my mother’s still undergoing dialysis. I can’t lose this job.” Walter wiped the cold

Chapter 5

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

Chapter 6

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

Chapter 7

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

Chapter 8

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

Chapter 9

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

Chapter 10

Hailey 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

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