Only A Heartbeat Away Novels & Stories

Softer this time. We stood like that in the quiet hallway. His heartbeat under my palm going fast and honest and real. Outside the window the grounds were dark and somewhere forty miles away a child was sleeping in a building we were going to take apart in four more days. But right now. Just this. His heartbeat. My hand. The choice I made with my eyes open. It was enough. For tonight it was enough.

I said, placing my hand over my beating heart. That was close.

Like an echo of a heartbeat that didn’t belong to her. A warning. A claim. A countdown.

Her lips were surprisingly warm, and it wasn't like he was expecting her to wake up just immediately, but having hopes that she might be a sleeping beauty didn't hurt. The next day, after he tried the new positive approach, the doctor came in with news of a nuclear bomb. Well, news that was close to being a nuclear bomb. "Her heart rate isn't normal, sir." "What do you mean, doc?" Kendrick asked. It was still weird that they still didn't know each other's names; they were comfortable with "doc" and "sir." It was weird. "We've been carefully monitoring her heart rate with the HRM whenever you're not here yet, and it's.."

All I knew was my heartbeat became faster than it was and…. 'BAM!’.

My heartbeat thundered. Now or never.

Then nothing. Only the echo of my own heartbeat. Slowing. And somewhere far away, the sound of a phone ringing. Once. Twice. Then silence.

Deep under the ground, beneath the ashes and dust, the faintest echo of that heartbeat remained. Slow. Steady. Waiting.

" Hope tries to increase his pulse but suddenly. Ryan take heavy breaths and his body shook rapidly. "No ryan please reponse me you can't leave me like this." Ryan ki heartbeats second by seconds was falling

My heartbeat was too irregular for it, but who the fuck cares? This might just be the start of something good. Please leave if a comment if you're following🥺