Novel & Cerita Heart Series

His eyes were squeezed shut, his breath warm on my face. I gasped, my hands coming up to brace against his chest, to push him away, but he covered them with his own, holding them there, right over his heart. I could feel its frantic, heavy rhythm. “Jax—” “Elliot,” he whispered my name, and it sounded like a prayer and a curse all at once. “Get away from me,” I said, but the words had no force. They were a reflex, the last defense of a heart that knew it was already lost.

Clean hit. He dropped instantly. The second came in right behind him, trying to close distance, but I met him with force—shoulder into chest—slamming him into the frame. Keisha yelled my name behind me. “Malik!” I didn’t look back. Not in a moment like this. The third man hesitated in the doorway. That hesitation told me everything. They weren’t expecting me. Not like this. He reached for his weapon— I fired before he cleared it.

" I laughed. Of course they had no empathy until it happened to them. Just as the bodyguards were about to strike again, Scarlett pulled a sharp hairpin from her hair and held it to her own throat. "Let him go." Ursula was furious. "Stop this nonsense!" James' face went pale. He knew his daughter's personality. He looked at Seth on the ground, unable to swallow his anger. "How dare you lay hands on a member of the Hayes family!" Scarlett pressed the hairpin closer to her throat. Ursula panicked. "Scarlett!"

"Are you thinking about your mom again? Do not think about it anymore. You have me now. I am your family." I leaned against his chest and listened to the steady rhythm of his heartbeat. Each heartbeat pressed into me like a blunt knife, carving a deeper ache inside. I thought, 'He's always so kind and dependable. How could this man be one of the people who killed my mother?' When Caleb abandoned my mother to care for Olivia, Ryan seemed like a savior. He arrived with a doctor in tow, a supposed beacon of hope slicing through the shadows. Now, I understood the truth. That doctor never came to save her; he came to take her heart. This explains why my mother's funeral was so swift.

The caller ID showed Alex Fedric from the neighboring province’s Central Hospital intensive care unit. I answered shakily and put the call on speaker. “Dr. Linch. Where is the heart? Where on earth is the heart?”

Swati gasped " oh! Aarya." I closed my eyes. I didn't regret a word. Something had died within me and it wasn't just his baby. “I seem cruel, isn’t it. I got a very important lesson. Never follow your heart. It will entangle you in its affairs and by the time you realize it you will be in knots”. Swati said, “God Aarya, I'll kill him if I get my hands on him. I so hate him now”. I replied “Hate is a very strong emotion Swati. I don’t feel anything for him. Our love died along with our baby. Promise me you'll help me forget him."

Wave after wave of anxiety crashed over him as he watch the screen, small blip and flat line followed by the same pattern over and over again. He held his breath and wiped more tears away from his eyes. She wasn't even his but he promised he'd look after her and in this moment he was failing miserably. Finn watched in horror from the corridor and saw hoses and tubes, syringes and he heard words and commands that he couldn't comprehend. It was all chaos in his mind and he was trying to stay focused. He couldn't follow their progress to understand if she would make it through. Finn was lost in the moment.

It wasn’t till I was safe inside did I hear his engines start and his car drive away, along with it went my hope. I leaned against the closed door, sighing to myself in the darkness of the room. How'd we learn to break our own hearts so terrified that someone else might?

she whispers, as she silently wept. ============================== Kei ran like a madman as he is dashing through the hospital's hallway where Uncle Onodera is confined. He received an emergency call from Aunt Francia, and she told him that the old man's condition has worsened due to the complications on his heart. He is now transferred to the Intensive Care Unit for observation. Uncle Onodera needs to have an open heart surgery as soon as possible, but he's still on a waiting list for heart donor recipients...

Stella was rushing toward me, a half-eaten sandwich in her hand, confusion and panic etched all over her face. “What happened?” she asked, eyes darting between me and the chaos inside. “He’s…he’s having another heart attack,” I managed, my voice barely a whisper. “Oh my God,” she exclaimed. She wrapped her arms around me, grounding me just enough to stop the shaking. I leaned into her, needing that hug more than I realized Minutes felt like hours. I could barely keep my cool, watching how hard the nurses and doctors were trying to keep him alive. Finally, the beeping slowed, Nate's heartbeat returned to normal. The flurry of movement also calmed down. I breathed a sigh of relief knowing from