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

lips curled into a cruel smirk.

picked up my medical records, now covered in

vision blurred as they walked away. After

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

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

we couldn’t find a matching donor, Alexander grew weaker by the day. Artificial heart technology wasn’t advanced then. In theory, it could sustain basic life functions, but the risks were numerous.

arranged to give him

Me The

Chapter 21

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

would randomly seize with pain. Coughing up blood and sudden weakness became my new

newer artificial heart.

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

the hospital, I returned to my rented apartment. The room was small, damp, and freezing in winter, sweltering in summer- but the rent

a match for his, I pretended to be

him divorce papers.

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

So I had to be cruel, pretending I’d had enough enough of the endless struggles by

I was

who had never feared

signed my

role as th

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