All Chapters of She Gave My Heart Away: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

Daniel's POVBack home, I started getting my affairs in order.After finalizing Mom's surgery and recovery plan, I began clearing out things related to Vivian. I dug out every keepsake I'd saved from the day Vivian and I met until now and, one by one, tossed them into a metal basin in the bathroom and set them on fire.Twenty years' worth filled the basin to the brim. It didn't burn easily.The orange peel she'd secretly saved and dried the first time I brought her, the orphan girl, home for dinner in elementary school. The diary she kept in high school about her crush on me. The train tickets from our long-distance years in college. The pressed petals from her wedding bouquet...The smoke made my eyes stream again and again, and again and again I wiped them dry.I had a video call with Mom before her surgery soon. I couldn't let her see my eyes red from crying. Even more, I couldn't let her know that Vivian, who'd once promised to treat the two of us as her closest family, was n

Chapter 2

A cold smile tugged at my lips.Provoking her how?She was the most famous medical expert in the country. Without her say-so, I'd never get that lifesaving heart.In my last life, when I heard she'd given away the heart we'd waited so long for, I smashed everything in the house I could get my hands on. She just quietly bought a whole new set of furniture and appliances. She even got rid of everything made of glass, afraid I'd hurt myself when I lost control.I cried, I raged, I even got down on my knees and begged her, and all I ever got was a gentle but firm refusal."Honey, if you want to smash things, go ahead! If you let it out, I'll feel a little less guilty. But I can't put you ahead of everyone else. Please understand."At first, though I resented it, I had no answer to her principles.Then the next two hearts didn't go to poor, struggling patients. One went to her male best friend's adopted brother, the other to her male assistant's neighbor. That was when my whole world

Chapter 3

I froze. Mom's surgery was scheduled for the afternoon, in a time slot Vivian had picked herself. Why had it been moved up?I hadn't cried, hadn't made a scene, hadn't fought for the heart. What was she pulling now?I rushed to the hospital, only to run into Noah, outside the operating room. He was in a hospital gown, clinging to Vivian with a look of utter misery."I never thought Mr. Carter would send me something like this. I've always looked up to him like family... It's my fault. That message made my heart act up, and just to avoid favoring your mother-in-law, you moved her surgery up to free the time slot for me..."I was stunned. So that was why Mom was on the table early.But I didn't even have his number, let alone send him any message!Vivian frowned, gently rubbing his back the whole time."Don't worry. As long as I'm here, no one's going to hurt you!"Then she turned and saw me, and her anger flared instantly."Daniel, I told you, if you're angry, take it out on me

Chapter 4

The next second, she was helping Noah into the operating room and ordering Mom's lead surgeon to perform his heart transplant instead.Dr. Hayes could only shoot me a guilty look before following them in.I panicked. I struggled to get up and stop them, but the searing pain in my chest brought me down again.Across the hall, the doors to Mom's operating room hung wide open. There was no one inside, only Mom, alone on the table.Gritting my teeth, I crawled toward their operating room, knelt at the door, and begged."I'm a bastard! I'm the worst! I was wrong! If you want to punish someone, punish me! Please, just save my mom first!"My anguished cries made Dr. Hayes let out a long sigh. She glanced tentatively at Vivian."Dr. Foster, forget Mrs. Carter for a second. I sent you Daniel's condition a week ago. Without this heart, he only has three...""Three years, right? That's enough time to find ten hearts. What's the rush? My mother-in-law only has to wait another half hour. I'

Chapter 5

But all that met her eyes was an empty operating table and blood smeared everywhere.Only then did she remember. When she'd called Rachel out, Amy's abdomen had just been opened. And she'd left that elderly woman waiting on a cold operating table for more than an hour!But where was she now?Vivian hurriedly pulled up the operating room's security footage. Only then did she see that after Daniel crawled in, Daniel had forced himself to his feet and frantically pressed at the most expensive machines around Amy, muttering helplessly to himself."Mom, don't go. I'll get someone to save you right now... No, I'll save you myself!"But how could an outsider like him understand that sophisticated equipment? After Daniel had pressed buttons at random, the room still echoed with that cold tone, and the screen still showed that monotonous flat line.Daniel wailed. He knelt and begged the heavens. He charged out and pounded on the door to Noah's operating room. None of it could turn things

Chapter 6

Dr. Hayes froze. She'd never expected to be suspected. Seething, she ripped off her surgical cap and threw it on the floor."Are you out of your mind? He's not related to me. Why would I cover for him? Weren't you the one always telling us to treat patients with real compassion? Just because he's your husband and you need to avoid favoritism, he doesn't even get treated like a human being?"The cutting words pierced Vivian's sorest spot.Faintly, the lines she'd written about Daniel in her high school crush diary twenty years ago surfaced in her mind."If he says yes to me after graduation, I'm going to give him the best of everything in the world!""My future mother-in-law made my favorite chicken pot pie for me again today. It smelled so good I almost passed out. She's basically my second mom!""All I need in this life is Daniel, and I get a mom's love as a bonus. Jackpot!""I'm going to become a doctor and use the best resources to cure Daniel's and his mom's heart disease, s

Chapter 7

On the screen was the steamy scene from the day Dr. Hayes had gone with Daniel to see Vivian about the latest donor heart.Noah, wiping tears from his eyes, knelt pitifully in front of Vivian."Dr. Foster, you know I've always looked up to you more than anyone. For four years, you're the only reason I made it from a small rural town to the city and found my footing. Now I want to live more than ever. After all, the longer I live, the happier I can make you..."His eyes smoldering, he deftly slipped off Vivian's clothes. On the on-call bed, Vivian soon closed her eyes, lost in it, nodding with a soft moan."You're so good to me. The new heart is definitely yours..."Afterward, Noah put on another show, pulling her into his lap and nuzzling the crook of her neck."But this one was meant for Mr. Carter. Won't he make a scene when he finds out?"With a satisfied smile, Vivian pulled his head to her chest."Everyone knows me as a saint. Avoiding favoritism is completely justified. B

Chapter 8

But there was no sign of Daniel at home.When she'd left that morning, she hadn't even noticed that twenty years of their love story, every keepsake they'd saved, had gone up in flames the night before.She stood there stunned, then ran into the bathroom, only to find that not even a speck of ash was left. It was as if Daniel had never been part of these twenty years.She searched the whole house like a madwoman, and only then did she realize how empty it was, so empty it chilled her to the bone.The two people she'd most wanted to protect and repay had both died at her hands. She could barely breathe.Then she saw Daniel's test report on the nightstand, and she broke down completely.She'd been so close to the truth last night, and still she hadn't seen it. She'd even made that showy breakfast this morning, as if it could atone for everything she'd done.She curled up on the floor and sobbed uncontrollably. All she wanted now was to find the boy she'd loved for twenty years and

Chapter 9

Daniel's POVWith my last breath, I carried Mom out and took her to the little river near the hospital that we both loved.Once our heart disease got worse, we sometimes spent more time at the hospital than at home, so the two of us often walked along this river. It was out in the suburbs, with hardly anyone around, peaceful and quiet.Two weeks ago, she was right here, smiling, though her eyes were full of worry."Daniel, I heard there's news about another heart. Really talk to Vivian this time. Don't let this one slip away."Back then, I'd confidently wrapped an arm around her shoulders and promised."Don't worry. She had her reasons the last two times. It isn't easy to climb as high as she has. This time, she promised it's mine. Once your surgery's done too, we'll take our healthy hearts back home to Cedar Falls for a few days. Maybe the old house still smells like the pot roast you used to make us!"Mom nodded gravely, her smile tinged with sorrow."You still remember. Vivi

Chapter 10

It was the very spot where she'd thrown a picnic to celebrate eighteen years of knowing Daniel and Amy.She'd joked back then that eighteen years was long enough for a person to come of age, and that it meant Daniel and Amy had given her a grown-up kind of love, and a life.Like the orange Amy handed her the first time she walked nervously into Daniel's house. It was the sweetest thing she'd ever tasted, so she secretly slipped a few pieces of peel into her ragged pocket and carefully dried them at home. Whenever she was bullied at school, one sniff of that peel calmed her.Like in middle school, when a kid with connections stole Daniel's scholarship. During an official inspection, she stormed into the principal's office and got justice for him, only to be targeted afterward and slapped with a disciplinary record herself.Like in high school, when she finally realized how she felt but didn't dare distract Daniel, the star student, from his studies. All she could do was secretly fil

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