The Heart I Gave The Love I Lost

Chapter 2

“You’re exactly the same as seven years ago – everything’s about money with you!”

I stood

up, looking at Alexander’s healthy physique. A faint smile crossed my lips as I picked up my medical records.

“Since you know how much I love money, Mr. Morgan, perhaps you’d like to lend me

more?”

Emily burst into tears, clutching his strong arm while shooting me a look full of mockery

and malice.

“Darling, what if she’s telling the truth?” she sniffled. “Besides

it was Sarah who

abandoned you, and then that kind donor’s heart saved your life! Shouldn’t we help her?”

Her words seemed to remind Alexander of how I had supposedly left him for money. The anger and hesitation in his eyes instantly froze over.

“A donor’s heart can’t save someone without a shred of humanity. She doesn’t deserve it.”

As Alexander turned to leave with Emily, she continued pleading. But in the split second she

back at me, her lips curled into a cruel

picked up my medical records, now covered

unnaturally. My vision blurred as they walked away.

the blood from my lips, staring at the words “artificial heart replacement.”

Alexander still didn’t know –

we couldn’t find a matching donor, Alexander grew weaker by the day. Artificial heart technology wasn’t advanced then. In theory, it could

a match, I arranged to give him my heart. I received the

Me

Chapter 21

years – it was all we could

pain. Coughing up blood and sudden weakness became my new normal. Without money, I

newer artificial heart.

artificial heart in my chest sent its seventh warning pulse. I knew it had reached its

freezing in winter, sweltering in summer- but the rent was cheap. This was where Alexander and I

I learned my heart was a match for his, I

him divorce papers.

knew how deeply I loved him and couldn’t believe I would leave. And I knew

he would never have let me trade my life for his. So I had to be cruel, pretending I’d had enough enough of the endless struggles by his side, enough of living without hope, enough of generic medications, one meal a day, drinking tap water when thirsty, eating stale bread when

told him I was

feared hardship or pain broke down crying

I signed my organ

role as th