After His Heart Transplant My Husband Forgot His Daughter Chapter 08
“Why did Elias’s heart have to cost me my dad?”
Grady’s hand flinched, but he kept listening.
The camping trip, the breakfasts, the broken promises. Elodie’s voice moved from confusedly asking, When are you coming back? to calmly stating, We’ll never see each other again.
All fifty-eight recordings traced how he had been pushed further and further out of his own daughter’s heart.
In the final one, recorded just before the accident, her voice was hoarse and weak.
“I’m moving away. If you ever think of me, go look at the stars. The stars can draw.”
She paused for a long, heavy moment.
“I won’t be able to use paintbrushes anymore.”
Clutching the tablet, Grady sank to the floor and finally broke, his body wracked with helpless sobs.
He began making frantic calls. My coworkers all claimed they knew nothing. His own friends cursed him out. “You bastard. Leave them alone.”
An email from my lawyer followed: the temporary sole custody order was now in effect. All communication had to go through court-approved software.
He rushed to the airport, only to be told that privacy regulations barred him from viewing any surveillance footage.
Grady sat motionless in the airport parking lot for half an hour. Then he suddenly started the car and drove straight to Renata’s apartment.
But when he got there, the door was slightly ajar.
Voices drifted out from inside.
He rushed to the airport, only to be told that privacy regulations barred him from viewing any surveillance footage.
Grady sat motionless in the airport parking lot for half an hour. Then he suddenly started the car and drove straight to Renata’s apartment.
But when he got there, the door was slightly ajar.
Voices drifted out from inside.
One of them belonged to Renata. The other was a man he didn’t recognize, his tone light and smug.