Novel & Cerita Borrowed Heart

They went to the same restaurant Xavier and I went to on our first date, smiling in a carefree manner as she sat in the place where I used to sit. She wanted every memory I had with Xavier to be filled with her shadow in his heart. I felt like I was now forced to watch a movie that didn't belong to me play out before my eyes. Misty told me to stop watching, but I couldn't stop myself from scrolling further. The pain in my chest eventually grew numb. Eventually, there was nothing left but an unexpected calmness in my heart. As it turned out, even emotions didn't bother showing anymore once someone had reached peak disappointment in someone else.

The road ahead seemed daunting, but I had to make decisions not just for myself but for my baby and my father's company. After messaging Rose, pleading for her to understand but met with rejection, I sank into the car, ignited the engine, and drove off. Tears blurred my vision, and an ache in my heart intensified with every passing mile. In the blur of emotion, my surroundings became hazy, and eventually, darkness consumed me. The next recollection was three days later, my eyes fluttering open in the sterile hospital room. The news hit me like a sledgehammer – a cruel revelation that I had lost my unborn child.

With a gentle smile, he said, "Sweetheart, look, isn't she much cleaner now?" Carrie clapped her hands, laughing like an innocent child. The cold liquid enveloped me, and the artificial heart in my chest, burdened beyond bearing, made a strange, strained sound. I desperately tried to swim to the surface but a hand ruthlessly pushed me down. Just when I thought I was going to die, the system's prompt echoed in my mind. [Condition 2 met. Reclamation of your father's wealth initiated.] Just a second before my artificial heart emitted a warning sound and was about to shut down completely, a pair of strong arms pulled me out of the bathtub.

So many things we’re running through my mind. Dominic and Cali looked happy as they followed the doctor to the operating room. I’m so happy and thankful that they didn’t lose their baby today. “I know you're mad at me for lying, but I couldn’t sleep knowing how much pain Dom and Cali were in and the more I stared at Ginger the more heartbroken I felt. I felt hopeless watching life slowly fading so I asked the doctor for a place to search for a new heart. He said it was hopeless that they'd tried but he gave me the paperwork anyway. I went to the states to get that heart and it cost me a shit Ton of money but I got it.” Bane told him.

On senior picture day, the fall of our last year of high school, I did what I always did and stood next to Lena, the girl I'd grown up with. One of our classmates started in on us. "Come on, let the little married couple stand together!" I'd heard it a hundred times, but the secret I was keeping still put color in my face. Lena didn't say anything. Then the photographer counted down, everybody yelled "Cheese," and I heard her voice next to me, low and flat with irritation. "This is exhausting. Can you give me some space?" It was her. I was born with weak vision, so my hearing has always been sharper than most people's. I know what I heard. The second the shutter clicked, she turned

When I was eight years old, my younger brother, Evan Gunn, extracted my artificial heart's battery to charge his phone. By the time my parents, Ethan Gunn and Andrea Alston, found out, I was already blue in the face and on the verge of death. Even after my life was saved, I was left with severe complications. From that day onward, Evan became all but invisible in our parents' eyes. They no longer smile at him or talk to him, instead focusing all their attention on me. Dad travels abroad to work, all so he can cover my heart's monthly maintenance costs. Mom quits her job to watch over me around the clock. She becomes a vegetarian in the hopes of trading her sacrifice for a longer life f

“The guys I borrowed from.” My heart dropped. I knew that Victor had taken out a loan. It was about a year ago, when his mother was terribly ill. The loan sharks in our area were known to be very dangerous– especially when their money wasn’t returned on time. I never wanted him to go that far, but it wasn’t like I had five thousand dollars laying around to give him for his mother’s surgery. He didn’t have a choice. And to think that she had ended up dying anyways was just cruel.

They were engraved within her heart like a stubborn plant that refused to wither, no matter how much time passed. She discovered that she had fallen in love catastrophically. Her mind never rested. She couldn't stop thinking about him. Every second, he invaded her thoughts. Even while she slept, he came to visit her dreams. She would wake up thinking about him, as though it were a job that started far too early every morning. She couldn't fight it. She felt herself drowning. And for the first time, she wished that no one would throw her a lifeline to save her from it.

“They said it didn’t take. Just borrowed.” Borrowed. The word scraped. Mara forced herself to step closer, ignoring the way the ground resisted her. “It doesn’t feel like harm because it doesn’t ask,” she said, voice shaking despite her effort. “It doesn’t negotiate. It just pulls.” “And what do you call what we’ve been doing?” the father snapped. “Asking politely while our children freeze?” The device pulsed softly, obedient and calm. The conduits nearby flickered — just once — then steadied. Confused. Unsure which signal deserved loyalty.

Nausea overwhelmed me, and I rushed to the side to retch. I accidentally bumped the bookshelf, and a book fell out. Picking it up, I realized it was actually a box disguised as a book. Inside were several "Voluntary Heart Donation" certificates and stacks of transfer receipts. Alexander had been sending large monthly payments to these donors' families, maintaining them. There was only one condition - they couldn't donate their hearts to anyone else. Whenever Scarlett needed one, they must provide theirs immediately. The last certificate was mine, but the recipient had been changed from my mother to Scarlett.