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

at me, her lips curled into a cruel smirk.

records, now covered

to flutter unnaturally. My vision blurred as they walked away. After a while,

from my lips, staring

still didn’t know – the heart beating in his chest was

day. Artificial heart technology wasn’t advanced then. In

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

Me

Chapter 21

theoretical lifespan of seven years

and sudden weakness became my

newer artificial heart.

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

damp, and freezing in winter, sweltering in summer- but the rent was cheap. This was where Alexander and I once lived, where we’d dreamed about our

for his, I pretended to be a

him divorce papers.

never complained once, staying faithfully by his side. He knew

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 hungry, stretching every dollar until

told him I was done

– this proud man who had never feared hardship or pain broke down crying as he signed the

signed my

role as th