Ascending Hearts Novels & Stories

he says and made way for me. I nodded and stepped inside. I looked back at him, and he was on his way out with his companions. Some smiled at me and I awkwardly smiled back at them, before shifting my attention back to what was in front of me. The smell of mahogany, rosewood, and maple, singes my nose as I took a deep breath in. Now that I’m looking around here again, it makes me realize how impressive their maintenance is when it comes to their instruments. It’s well taken care of.

She was just staring blankly at the Doctor while blinking her eyes from time to time as if confirming that this isn’t a dream. “Kiara?” My body became cold as my hands starts to tremble while waiting for her or the doctor to say anything. “Systolic. The left ventricle of the heart, which pumps most of the blood, has become weaker. This happens because it’s gotten bigger. Since it is larger than before, the ventricle can’t contract the way it should. Because of that, your heart doesn’t pump with enough force to push blood throughout the body.” Kiara explained. Astonishment was all over her face.

They tried to tie up the points of flow but the whole chest just kept filling with blood. “I need a few doses of Tenormin” “Doctor?” One of the attending subjects stalled. “We need to slow down the bleeding” she explained. At this point, the heart monitor was way beyond normal. A sudden failure of the heart to pump would result in Cardiogenic shock. “ We are going to slightly move the patient to allow us to make an anterolateral thoracotomy incision.” Again they brought the suction tubes to clear away the blood. Then they spotted an unusual deformity that had developed around the heart.

“Stable doesn’t always mean safe. Her condition was already critical. In elderly patients with advanced heart disease, sudden deterioration can still happen.” Adrian’s gaze shifted briefly toward Marta’s room before returning to the doctor. “Possible,” he said quietly. “But the progression still doesn’t fully make sense.” The doctor frowned slightly. “What do you mean, sir?” Adrian answered in the same calm, controlled tone. “A patient under constant ICU cardiac monitoring usually shows warning signs first. Irregular heartbeat. Dropping oxygen levels. Blood pressure changes. The alarms should’ve gone off before full cardiac arrest.” The doctor fell silent for a moment because Adrian was righ

he cried again as he flew away from the poisoned arrows that nearly hit him. With all his might, Alarick pushed the ruby's heart back into June's chest cavity. June's eyes were wide open and now began to dim again. The ruby ​​heart was very hard to push, Alarick screamed until his body now lit up with white light, a sign that Alarick had put all his strength to push the heart. Slowly the heart returned to June's chest cavity. "No!" cried Altair when he saw what was happening.

"Mr. Harrington." "How is she?" Bryce asked, lowering his voice. "I mean....really." "She's doing better than yesterday," Dr. Adams assured him with a calm smile. "Her vitals are stable, she ate a full breakfast, and even cracked a joke today." Bryce's lips twitched despite the sting in his heart. "That definitely sounds like her." "She's a fighter, Mr. Harrington," the doctor added. "But as you know.... with her chronic heart condition, we still have to monitor the arrhythmia closely. It's a degenerative issue, and we've had to adjust her medications again."

The burning in his chest intensified. That was the part the texts didn’t explain. The part Dr. Aris spoke about in clinical terms organ cascade failure, accelerated metabolic breakdown, cardiac degradation. Julian experienced it as agony so complete it felt like his entire chest cavity was being replaced with molten lead. His heart the cursed, dying, beautiful heart that was killing his entire bloodline beat so hard and so fast that he could see his own ribs moving beneath his skin.

CHAPTER FIVE Adex, not much familiar with rain fall, cold can easily penetrate into his body even if it was a dazzling. Adex was diagnosed with heart failure, is a disease that has hurt him from child, his known to avoid anything that is contrary to his heart healthy. because of his condition, Bolade is bond with more responsibility than him, we can say Adex don’t do anything.

He was letting out these thin, pathetic whimpers—the sound of a dying pup. I lunged for the bed, shoving Lily's panic into a corner so I could focus. "Seraphina, he's got an arrhythmia. Blood pressure is spiking, O2 sats are tanking..." "EKG and ultrasound results, now!" "Intracardiac thrombus. It's a clot." I felt my jaw tighten. "Inject heparin. Move!" I went into command mode, steering the team through the chaos. Within minutes, Rolf's vitals started to level out.

"In this cycle, you don't exist because you were born; you exist because you are Borrowed. And the High Council is currently using the First Alpha’s heart as the collateral for the loan" The lift hissed to a stop in a chamber that looked like a cross between a cathedral and a laboratory. In the center, suspended in a cylinder of pulsing cyan liquid, was the First Alpha’s Heart. It was massive, a gnarled mass of prehistoric muscle and black-light circuitry that beat with a rhythmic, thunderous sound that echoed the very first howl of our species.