Trace A Drop Of Blood Through The Heart Novels & Stories

𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 2 "𝐴 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑..... 𝐴 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑚𝑎𝑛..... 𝐴 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘..." Katherine That organ in my body that pumps blood and keeps my whole blood warm somersaulted and I took a step back. Alexander Tyrone leaned on the door in all his glory.

Like I’d just confirmed his worst fear. I walked past him. Not rushed, not dramatic, Just… done with the conversation before it could even begin. The hallway felt colder than usual as I made my way to the bathroom. Behind me, I could hear his breathing falter, just slightly and then the faintest scrape of his hand dragging down his face. But he didn’t follow me. Once inside the bathroom, I turned on the shower, hot water roared to life.

It was cold. My body was in tremendous agony. I was soaked in a pool of blood. I tried to move, but piercing pain circled through my veins. My heartbeat was wild. I inhaled deeply, trying to get some air, and at this moment, I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Weakly I lifted my head and saw a bleeding hole below my heart.

My heart kicked in my chest. They were here, and I was sure of it. I followed the prints until they vanished into leaves and scattered ground. My breath caught. “Shit.” Five different paths. Five branches, all leading somewhere. I stood frozen, eyes darting from one path to the next. Then… I saw it. A faint smear of red on a fallen leaf. Then another. A trail. Blood. My heart dropped. Ava. It could be animal blood, part of me whispered. Or… it could be the wound I gave her when I shot her the previous day.

I looked down to see what it was. It was only a speck in the vast sea of snow but it stood out amongst the white. It was in the shape of a tiny drop but the warmth coming from it melted the snow a little, caused a slight dent as it was absorbed into the snow. Blood. It was a drop of blood. The temperature suddenly dropped by at least ten degrees as another drop of blood fell on the ground to join the other droplet. Then another. And another. The drops weren’t coming from the sky and I realized with a start that the blood was actually dripping down my fingertips.

“Not enough red, need more red.” “There is nothing red,” one of the doctors say. “The top of the red is best. Need 12 beats,” Zachary smiles at Terry. “Blood, you need blood?” Terry asks. “Twelve beats,” Zachary holds out a silver knife and his own hand. “You need 12 drops of blood?” Hank asks. “Beat, boom, boom, boom, boom,” Zachary tells them. “Heartbeats, he needs 12 heart beats of his own blood,” Terry tells them.

The place where the Tear Drop had shattered still glowed faintly in the dark. A single drop of blood rose from the ground, drifting after me like a living ember, following, waiting, and claiming.

Mamá and Javier came over to me; Javier was bleeding from his mouth yet remained standing between me and the altar as if he could protect me from the apocalypse. “Flee mija " he croaked. “No " I replied. "We finish this as one.” Marco knelt in the middle of the golden fault lines his hands pressed flat against the ground blood streaming, from his eyes gold code flowing out rapidly than his body could produce it. “I can’t keep the patch on any further " he yelled. "The heart is resisting. It’s attempting to restart the bloodstream!” The scarlet heart perched over the altar pulsated once—BOOM—and all remaining reflections collapsed onto their knees heads lowered, as if in reverence.

She swallowed and held a high-definition probe to investigate Zoey's heart and its surroundings. Normally, this instrument detects the whole body, but Zoey was pregnant, so it could only perform partial detection. The doctor initially didn't find anything, but then gradually furrowed his brow. "It seemed like there was something." After speaking, she checked again, as if that thing had disappeared again. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Let me take another look." Half an hour later, her face became serious. "There seems to be some regurgitation between the tricuspid valve position in the right atrium and right ventricle, but there appears to be something moving inside."