“I checked the security camera. You set up
Chloe. You were faking that heart attack. It was
to get revenge on her mom! Okay, I was dumb.
But what did Chloe do?!”
“She has already lost her mom, and you made
her suffer because of the mechanical heart.
Why did you tell her how her mother died?! Why
did you do everything so that she would just
want to die?”
Tiffany was panicking. “I.. I didn’t do it on
purpose. I was just scared that you wouldn’t like me if she was there. I was just jealous.”
“I have been married to Chloe for seven years!
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For seven years, I have been nice to you. More
than Chloe! Tiffany, don’t lie. You don’t care
about me. You care about what I can get you.
You are always acting! Chloe never asked for
anything, why are you still going after her?”
“Since you hate her so much, then why use her
heart?”
Tiffany looked at him with fear. She grabbed
her chest. “W… what do you mean?”
Jake gave an unsettling smile. “You have to
give the heart back to Chloe, so she can forgive me.”
Tiffany was going crazy. “O… Okay, after I changed my heart, I will give it back to her.”
Jake took out his surgical knife and shook his head. “No, I need to see her now. I can’t let her wait anymore.” The same words he used that night.
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Tiffany ran, but he cut her Achilles‘ tendon.
“Tiffany, be good, you care for me, so you will
help me get Chloe back.”
The sound of Tiffany’s scream could be heard
through the house.
After work, Sarah called me and said the weather was good. She wanted to go to the beach with me. That’s when I saw Jake again.
His face was full of joy. “Chloe, is that you? I thought I was hallucinating. Chloe, I missed you so much!”
Jake held a brown, tinted bottle. It smelled bad. When he noticed that I was staring, he held out the bottle. “Chloe, look, I got your heart back. It’s still working. Can I do the surgery? Then you won’t have to suffer with that mechanical heart.”
My heart? What happened to Tiffany? Did she
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get another neart?
“No thanks. Sarah already found me a matching
heart and did the surgery. Just go, I don’t want
to see you again. I don’t want to use anything
that was inside Tiffany. Donate it to someone
who needs it.” I said calmly.
Jake was taken aback by my reply. He thought
that as long as he had the heart, I would forgive
him.
Sarah pulled me behind her and yelled. “You
son of a dog! We haven’t asked you to pay for
what you did to Chloe’s mother, and you have
the nerve to come here! Chloe doesn’t want
you. Go away!”
That set him off. He put down the bottle and
tried to walk to me. When he noticed that I was
backing away, he stopped. I used to run to him.
whenever he took a step towards me.
His eyes were full of quilt “It was my fault
His eyes were full of guilt. “It was my fault,
Chloe. I am sorry. I was tricked by Tiffany. I
didn’t know that she was faking it. Chloe, my
mom is gone. Let me take care of you. I will
love you more. I will be so good to you.”
I finally took a step towards him. Sarah looked
at me, surprised, but she didn’t say anything.
She just sighed.
Jake looked at me like I gave him hope. “Chloe,
are you giving me a chance? Don’t worry, I will
make you happy.”
Slap! I slapped him across the face, making him.
forget his line.
“Jake Walker, how can you mention my mom!?”
“She could have lived. You took her life!”
“You made her watch her daughter getting her heart taken, just to give it to the woman who
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stole her daughter’s fiancé! And you had the
nerve to marry me?”
“You threw me into hell, and killed my mother.
What makes you think that you can love me more than her?”
Tears started falling from his face. “Chloe, I am sorry! I will atone for my mistakes. Just don’t leave me.
I said coldly. “Jake, are you out of your mind? Do you think I can live with you after everything you have done? Would my mom let me?”
“She probably wants you to die, and I do too. I
haven’t killed you yet because you don’t
deserve for me to be sent to jail.”
“And your blood is too dirty for me.”
Jake’s face was as white as a ghost. “If you
really want to atone for your mistakes, go
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where you belong, not to me.” “I am only going
to say this once, stay away from me.”
I turned and left with Sarah.
Jake stayed at the beach for a while. They say
he was arrested when he got back to the city because someone noticed a lot of blood in his house. The police found Tiffany’s body at his house.
Jake was found guilty of murder and organ theft.
They said the heart was donated to another person.
A few days later, I saw in the news that the former CEO of the Walker group killed himself by stabbing his heart with a chopstick in jail. He also cut his tendons. He must’ve had a lot of
courage and determination to do that.
Only I knew that he was apologizing to me.
But I will never forgive him.
(The End)
