My Pulse Keeps Him Alive
Language: en
Since I was a child, my heartbeat has been so unnaturally steady that I sometimes wondered if I was actually alive. Even during the grueling physical fitness tests in high school, when everyone else was panting and clutching their chests, my pulse remained a perfectly flat, unbothered line. It was an anomaly. A medical quirk. I never thought much of it until the day Tiffany, my family’s biological daughter, dragged me along to call off her engagement to the reclusive heir of the Dumont empire. That was when I discovered Adrian Dumont had a congenital heart condition. His heart was a…