My father, a respected ethics professor, looked peaceful in the mortuary. But then, a chilling detail: a fresh, surgical scar beneath his collar. They said car accident, but his heart was gone. The truth shattered me: his heart, transplanted. To my best friend, Chloe, who was pregnant. And the consent signed by Ethan, my fiancé. When I confronted him, Ethan just shrugged, called it "practical." He even suggested my father's death was a "fortunate coincidence," and I should just get over it. He had the audacity to propose I become the baby's nanny. Then he locked me in a dark room, calling me "hysterical." My father' s heart, stolen and beating in my best friend' s chest. Carrying my fiancé' s child, conceived in betrayal. The cold I felt in the mortuary was nothing compared to the ice forming around my own heart. Did they really think I would accept this, quietly become their hired help? They had awakened something buried deep. My "normal" life was over. I escaped, found a burner phone, and dialed a number I swore I' d never call again. "Marc," I whispered, "I need your help." My past was about to become their nightmare.
My father, a respected ethics professor, looked peaceful in the mortuary.
But then, a chilling detail: a fresh, surgical scar beneath his collar.
They said car accident, but his heart was gone.
The truth shattered me: his heart, transplanted.
To my best friend, Chloe, who was pregnant.
And the consent signed by Ethan, my fiancé.
When I confronted him, Ethan just shrugged, called it "practical."
He even suggested my father's death was a "fortunate coincidence," and I should just get over it.
He had the audacity to propose I become the baby's nanny.
Then he locked me in a dark room, calling me "hysterical."
My father' s heart, stolen and beating in my best friend' s chest.
Carrying my fiancé' s child, conceived in betrayal.
The cold I felt in the mortuary was nothing compared to the ice forming around my own heart.
Did they really think I would accept this, quietly become their hired help?
They had awakened something buried deep.
My "normal" life was over.
I escaped, found a burner phone, and dialed a number I swore I' d never call again.
"Marc," I whispered, "I need your help."
My past was about to become their nightmare.
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