Second Heartbeat Novels & Stories

He reached for the SUV’s radio, turning the dial until it hit the exact number. The speakers didn't emit music. They emitted a heartbeat. A slow, steady, rhythmic thumping that echoed through the car. "Is that... Isabella's?" Ivy whispered. "No," Dante said, his face turning a deathly pale grey. "Listen to the interval. The gap between the beats." Ivy listened. It wasn't a human heartbeat. It was a dual beat—two hearts pulsing in a perfect, synchronized rhythm. It was the sound of a merger.

It was strangely kind of… fluttery “Ugh, it can't be now,” I muttered, supporting my left hand with my stomach while the right hand rubbed over my belly. It kept twisting again and again. This very time, it came somewhat too hard. A heat spread through my lower abdomen, forcing me to straighten up immediately. What in heaven's name could that be? My fingers shook wildly as I placed them on the same spot again. Then, I heard a boom. That was a heartbeat. It was exactly like an echo, and the strange thing was that it was inside me.

It was as if time had frozen, leaving only two figures standing in the middle—just me and her. My heart no longer had a weak beat in my chest as it had for days. It didn’t skip with uncertainty. Instead, my heartbeat echoed through my body, and power surged through me again. And it wasn’t just once; it was several times, sudden and overwhelming, as though I was drawing it straight from the moon itself.

Thump-thump. She paused. Her hand drifted lower. It slid past her ribs, flattening against her lower stomach. Thump-thump... thump-thump-thump. Elena’s breath hitched. There was another sound. It was incredibly faint. It sounded like the rapid, delicate flutter of a bird's wings inside a cage. It was a second heartbeat. A tiny, hyper-fast pulse vibrating right beneath her palm. A pregnancy.

I saw it. The heartbeat. Fast and furious and alive. Something cracked inside my chest. Something I'd been holding together since the moment I signed that contract. Tears slid down my temples into my hair. I didn't wipe them away. "The heartbeat is strong," Dr. Hayes said. "Faster than typical for four weeks, but —" She tilted her head. "But there's something else." "What?" Kael's voice was rough. Dr. Hayes zoomed in. The image blurred, then sharpened.

Like a heartbeat. Like something counting time.

She asked him in a small voice. “Take all the time you need. Just remember that my heart only beats for you.” He kissed her forehead.

Evans said as he listened closely. "What is it, Doctor?" Dani asked with a little fear in her voice. "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about," I reassured her. "Well, it sounds to me that there are more than one heartbeats I'm picking up." "Say What Now?" We both asked. "Ms. Danielle disregarding yours, there are two heartbeats, and if you look closely at the ultrasound you can see that there is a second baby." "What?" Asked Dani in shock I just sat there with wide eyes.

She then brought her face closer to his when she didn't hear the answer. Her eyes suddenly opened wide with her heart beating rapidly as he opened his eyes, slipping his hand behind her neck kissing her on the lips.

Faint, rapid, but unmistakably present. My blood went cold as I realized what I was hearing. Two heartbeats. Coming from my mate's body. I shifted position carefully, not wanting to wake her, and pressed my ear closer to her chest. Claire's heart beat with the strong, steady rhythm I'd grown accustomed to over months of sleeping beside her. But underneath that familiar sound, almost masked by her own circulation, was something smaller. Faster. Different. My hands trembled as I moved lower, following the source of that second heartbeat with supernatural focus that blocked out every other sound in the room. When I reached Claire's abdomen, the truth hit me like