The Heart She Stole

Summary

My wife and I were the world’s greatest liars.

She lied and told me we were going for a routine check-up. In reality, she was harvesting my heart to save the love of her life.

I lied and told her I was going to a private sanitarium to clear my head. In reality, I left signed divorce papers on the counter and vanished to die alone.

It wasn’t until three years later, at her lover’s birthday gala, that my wife of four years finally remembered we shared the same birthday.

Feeling a rare moment of mercy, she ordered the leftover cake to be sent to the facility where she thought I’d been…