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

me, her lips

my medical records, now covered in Emily’s footprints. Suddenly, my artificial

blurred as they walked away.

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

the seven–year–old scar across my chest. Alexander still didn’t know –

Artificial heart technology wasn’t advanced then.

to give him my heart. I

Me

Chapter 21

heart with a theoretical lifespan of seven years – it was all we

with pain. Coughing up blood and sudden weakness became my new normal. Without money, I kept postponing the surgery for

newer artificial heart.

artificial heart in my chest sent its seventh warning pulse.

sweltering in summer- but the rent was cheap. This was

my heart was a match for his, I pretended to be a gold digger and

him divorce papers.

by his side. He knew how deeply I loved him and couldn’t believe I would leave.

truth, 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

was done with

that day – this proud man who had never feared hardship or pain broke down crying

my

role as th

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