Heartless By Marissa Meyer Novels & Stories

I have a congenital heart defect, and the doctors say I won't make it past 18. When I am ten, my parents bring home a blind child, saying she is my twin sister, Everly Wallace. My family spoils me rotten, but they treat Everly like a ghost. Everyone says Everly exists only to give me her heart. I try so hard to be good to this sister who shares my face, desperate to ease my guilt. When I reach 18, I lie on the operating table. Except they don't take my heart. They take my corneas. I die after that, while Everly finally sees the light.

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.

Selena’s smile felt brittle, like glass on the verge of shattering. She could do this. If she just kept her head down, if she just kept moving forward— “And finally, Mr. Julian Mathers.” Her breath caught. She knew it was coming. She had been dreading it. And yet, when she heard his name spoken aloud, it felt different. Real. A force that pulled at something deep in her chest, something she had tried to bury long ago. Her heart slammed against her ribs, a frantic rhythm that left her lightheaded.

“Heart failure. Her poor heart just couldn't beat no more." I fell to my knees, bawling like someone just threw me into the pits of hell. My skin burnt, my head felt heavy and my heart felt like it too just didn't want to beat anymore. I looked up to the sky, it was like the sun was mourning too as the sky got dark as inky clouds rolled over the face of the sun. My eyes caught something in the window on the second floor. It was Sinister. He was just standing there looking at me through the window. He had a look of triumph on his face that I didn't understand at the time. Maxwell took me in his arms, so I could cry on his shoulder. He took me inside before we were soaked in the rain. I wanted

Sophia slowly walked, and with every step she took, her body felt lighter, her heart raced but it wasn't out of fear, it was out of the uncontrollable joy within her. ~~~~ Heart beats fast Colors and promises How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall? But watching you stand alone All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow One step closer... ~~~~ The melody coming from the violin faded out for a second and even from far away, Caden could see the soft and gentle smile that Sophia was wearing on her. She was looking at him, as he did too her. They were looking at each other longingly, as if the short distance between them felt like a million miles away.

Once we go back, I'll stay there with you. "I already called off my engagement with Jessica. From beginning to end, the only person I've ever loved is you. Millie… Please come back to me, okay?" He apologized through choking sobs. Even though the people around us could not understand the language he spoke, the sight of him kneeling there still moved some of them. However, as I looked at him, I realized something. The disgust I once felt was gone. All that remained inside me was calmness. During this past year, I had already erased his name from my heart. The scars were still there, but looking at him now felt no different from looking at a stranger.

Still, he chose to shatter her life just to keep Olivia breathing. To him, nothing was truly unforgivable. He believed that as long as he tried to make amends, even my mother's death could be balanced out. Maybe he convinced himself her life with me was empty, or that an early death was a mercy, a chance for her soul to begin again. Ryan spiraled into madness, desperate to find me. … Meanwhile, I was on a flight out of the country. I had finally broken free, yet an ache still gnawed at my chest.

Cass waited until the deadbolt clicked behind her before she set the envelope on her coffee table. The apartment was quiet—too quiet. Even the city’s usual hum seemed muffled through the rain streaking her windows. She sat, letting her fingers hover over the silver-inked initials. Whoever had sent this hadn’t just known her name—they’d known her real one. Not the polished, harmless Cass Blake everyone met in daylight. The flap opened without resistance. Inside was a single sheet of matte black paper, the message printed in faint grey type, like a whisper in ink:

she is sobbing and wiping her tears “You said you see a lot of monster here, well in your new place there will be none.” “Why aren’t you coming?” her words pained me “I can’t, they only need one kid.” But the truth is no one will ever like a 12-year-old boy like me “You said you will never leave me…” and she started crying again “Sh…I will do that, when you are with them I can still pay you a visit” “Mr. Marcus won’t allow you to get out”

But I know in my deep heart that I'm not the man she deserves by her side, the magnitude that this exuberant woman is at, doesn't match anything I've ever been able to do or not. Karila pressed her lips tightly together, her eyes could no longer contain the tremendously merciless tears falling down her face. She moved the first paper read to land on the table, and focused on the second, fearful that she would read something too difficult to be read to the point of irreversibly affecting her. Music on* Strange Birds - Birdy