Heartbeat Of Hummingbird Novels & Stories

Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 43: not infinite, not Mariposa but Doctors . “What about your heart?” Hana, who was cute as a button, gave an almost invisible nod. “It beats really fast sometimes.” “And slow at other times? Slower than you usually feel?”. “No,” She denied, and Gianna felt sweet relief whip through her. A quick heartbeat, rather than a heartbeat that alternated between quick and slow, was easier to deal with. And it indicated something much better than the other scenarios that were playing through Gianna’s head.

Samantha wined down to hear the lady out. Her face was covered by the hand of the lady in a blink of an eye, she could feel the pain on her face.

"See how small it is?" "It looks like it's made of glass." She leaned closer. "Why is it like that?" I frowned, examining the organ more carefully. She was right—the bird's heart had a translucent, crystalline quality to it. "I'm not sure. I've never seen anything like this before."

Ember's POV When I opened my eyes, the world was quiet again. No fire. No ash falling from the sky. Just the smell of earth after the storm and the faint, rhythmic sound of breathing beside me. For a moment, I didn’t move. I just lay there, feeling the soft pulse under my skin — not mine, his. It was strange at first, how his heartbeat echoed through me, slow and steady, syncing with my own like two flames caught in the same rhythm. Every inhale he took brushed against my senses. Every exhale felt like it was mine too.

“You sure what you feel isn’t just… proximity to truth?” My breath hitched, and my heart almost skitted to a stop before picking its pace, and fucking shot through the roof. He saw it all unfolding before his eyes. His hand slowly descended to my left breast, then lower, until it spread underneath the globe, and right above the ribs that cocooned the little organ that was close to burning through the cage and out of my body. “You hear that?” He said quietly, my heartbeat drumming into his pulse. My pulse danced on my neck like it was something alive. “That heartbeat? It’s mine. All of it.”

“I'm a man with a heart that can do a lot of things.” “Oh?” Aurora teased, tilting her head to the side. “And what other things can your heart do?” “Well, it can pump blood, and at the same time, it only beats for you.” Hearing Maverick's words, Aurora felt as though her entire body was about to give out on her. Her cheeks burned with heat while her knees felt weak, and also her stomach was filled with so many butterflies that it seemed they were threatening to burst free. The overwhelming feeling instantly made Aurora unstable, and her legs wobbled beneath her as she nearly fell to the floor.

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 nervous system.

She waited for the nothingness, a final, defiant witness to the end of the world. And then, in the absolute zero of the void, she heard it: A single, rhythmic, human heartbeat. Thump-thump. It wasn't coming from the machine. It was coming from inside her own chest.

It is very small, and it is in her eyes, not her mouth, and I find that I trust it precisely because it costs something. The examination table is cold through the paper covering. I lie back and look at the ceiling and Amara works with quiet efficiency — the probe, the screen angled so I can see it, her eyes moving between the image and her notes with the focused attention of someone doing the one thing they are very good at. Two heartbeats. I hear them before I see them — that rapid, percussive sound, doubled, slightly offset in rhythm. I keep my face still.

It was like I was a dolphin with an echolocation. Every slight vibration I could visualize as if I was looking at everything within a few yards radius of me. It was new to me, and I didn’t understand it. That was until I saw the slightest beat of Connor’s heart. It was barely there and only happened once, but it was enough to know he was still alive for now. I held my breath to see if it would happen again, and a few seconds later, I could see his heartbeat once more. It wasn’t something I could have heard, even with my enhanced sense of hearing. I doubt even a heart monitor would have registered it.