Heartbeat Novels & Stories

Play swirled around them, bodies crashing against the boards as the horn for a delayed penalty echoed through the arena. Up in the coaches' box, behind her tiered array of glowing tactical displays, Eve stopped breathing. The primary telemetry monitor exploded into a blinding flash of crimson data. **CRITICAL ALERT: Player #17 — Heart Rate Max Exceeded (194 BPM)** **Adrenaline Surge: +410%** **Kinematic Failure Risk: IMMINENT**

"Why would you.. " he asked but I wasn't listening anymore. I snatched his phone from Aunt Gracy but was met with password I wanted to hand it over to him to press his password but he beat me to it by telling me "The password is kejogmet" "okay" I said pressing the password and it unlocked though in my mind, I was surprised. I can remember overhearing NataliesN conversation with Jeanette and Eleanor when Natalie complained Kendall wont tell her his phone's password.

I wonder who you really are. My heart skipped a bit as I read her text. Oh no shit. Not today, not ever. So that was what they were talking about? What exactly was online? I clicked on the news notification that just popped up and opened it, and what I saw there had my heart beating fast in shock.

she yelled Silas placed his hand on her shoulder. “Do you feel any pain in your chest?” He asked Fiona raised her brow in puzzlement. “What?” “You don't, right? That is because you have a healthy heart. That boy is suffering from heart failure and that seizure could've killed him if I hadn't been there so yes, his life is more important” Fiona's eyes whelmed up, “I can't believe you're saying this,” Silas ascended the stairs, paying her fuss no attention.

"You're burning up." "I know." He went to the door. Called for Dr. Senne. Dr. Senne came in. Checked my vitals. His expression changed. "What?" I asked. "What's wrong?" "Your heart rate is too high. And your temperature." "What does that mean?" "The trigger is working too well. Your body is overreacting." "Can you stop it?" "No. But I can give you something to manage the symptoms." He left. Came back with another injection.

I wheezed at Ryan as he reached for me. I looked back. Kael was still lying at the threshold, three meters away. I tried to crawl forward, to get my son to the plane. The moment I crossed the three-meter mark, the Shared Heat turned into a piercing cardiac arrest. My heart misfired—thump-thump-stop—the rhythm failing as Kael’s heart struggled to beat in the distance. The link was a leash. By using his marrow to break the signature, I had tied our frequencies. If he wasn't within three meters, the biological circuit would break. And if it broke, my heart would stop with his.

One of them, a man with broad shoulders and a yellow vest, stands up from the figure lying on the asphalt. He shakes his head and he pulls a white sheet over the body. The sheet turns transparent in the rain, clinging to the small, frail form underneath. Mom. "No," the word falls from my lips like a stone. "No. She’s just sleeping. She just fell." A sharp, piercing sound cuts through the fog in my brain. Beep. Beep. Beep. It is coming from my chest. My pacemaker, the device that keeps my broken heart pumping, is sending a warning signal. My pulse is too high.

His skin was cold, completely devoid of the feverish heat that usually accompanied an Ouroboros flare-up. She pressed her trembling fingers to the carotid artery at his neck, right beside the blackened, blistered skin of his neural port. Nothing. Silence. She pressed harder, panic rising in her chest like bile. Then, a flutter. It was impossibly faint, a thready, erratic rhythm that felt less like a human heartbeat and more like a dying battery attempting to hold a charge. He was alive, but barely. She yanked a trauma kit from her belt, driving a heavy-duty neuro-stimulant directly into his thigh, praying the synthetic adrenaline would kick-start his failing n

One hundred and sixty. The pacemaker is throwing glaring red error messages across my screen. It’s trying to fire, trying to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm. It doesn't work. Tariq’s compound is basically liquid chaos. It’s tearing Vane’s nervous system apart from the inside. "Security is on him," Max says. "They’re pushing the crowd back. Someone is yelling for a doctor." One hundred and ninety. Fibrillation. The heart isn't beating anymore. It’s just vibrating, totally unable to push blood through his body.

“Last time you hit 140 you spotted. Dr. Hewitt said—” “Dr. Hewitt said it’s normal,” I said. Sat up. “She said twins make your heart work harder. She said walking to the bathroom isn’t a medical emergency.” He didn’t answer. He was looking at the monitor in the nursery. Alex. 98 BPM. Sleeping. Then at mine. 112 BPM. Awake. Annoyed. Then at his phone. His own. 167 BPM. “You’re going to give yourself a heart attack,” I said.