My Heart Belongs to the Lich

"Dad, whose heart it belongs to?" little Samuel asked.

He is still ten years old. Because of his heart disease, he must not exhaust himself like the other kids.

He is being overprotected by his parents.

They never let him do those extreme physical exercises nor made him feel extreme emotions, either positive or negative ones.

Mr. Fernandez rubbed his son's soft and fluffy hair while gently staring at him.

"Honestly, we don't know whom it belongs to. We were also reluctant to use it for you. But, your condition cannot wait any longer."

" So, we did an inspection and found out that it is a healthy and strong heart"

Mr. Fernandez said but inside his mind is a guilty conscience who wants to reveal the dark secret of how he obtained the heart organ.

Yesterday before he got the heart organ, there's no available heart from any hospital he asked for and no one is willing to donate.

Until a middle-aged woman came to him and said that she has a healthy daughter who wants to donate her heart.

Mr. Fernandez frowned as he heard what the middle-aged woman said.

She claimed herself as the mother of the little girl but she's the one who brought harm to her.

Mr Fernandez rejected her immediately without hearing her further explanation. He felt wronged for the little girl but he shook his head and pushed aside this trivial incident.

Then, this morning, he heard that a little girl was murdered outside the city.

He was about to walk away but the middle-aged woman came again to him and offered him the little girl's heart.

He was petrified like there's a cold water poured on his body while every dots slowly connected and immediately understood. However, he remained silent.

He didn't want to accept the heart organ, at first.

But Samuel's attending doctor kept telling him that Samuel's heart cannot wait any longer.

If the heart transplant is not done, Samuel's life will be in danger.

He clenched his hands into a fist and finally made a decision. He knows his priority.

Although it is injustice for the little girl to die on exchange for the little amount of money, his son's life is the most important for him.

"I'll transfer the money to your bank" his hands shook as he shakes hand with the middle-aged woman, who is grinning from ear to ear.

"Yes, please do so" she responded and was about to walk away when Mr. Fernandez told her something shocking.

"I'll pay for the little girl's funeral and burial. My assistant will assist you" he said coldly as it still doesn't erase from inside his mind of what the middle-aged woman conspired just for the money.

"There's no need to..." the middle-aged woman wanted to reject but Mr. Fernandez took an ATM card from his pocket and gave to his assistant.

"Assist her for the little girl's funeral and burial" and left them as he staggered on the way to his son's ward.

The assistant frowned as he looked up the middle-aged woman.

"I'll assist you personally" he conveyed his intention to only assist but never to bother himself on arranging everything.

The middle-aged woman's eyes glinted as she smiled harmlessly. She looks like an ordinary middle-aged woman who didn't harm anyone before. That's her facade.

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The little girl's corpse was brought to the morgue and the person in-charged of doing the embalming checked the little girl's body.

He was stunned to feel the warmth seeping out of the little girl's body and immediately pulled out the white blanket which covered the little girl.

The little girl's chest was sutured and the embalmer knew that there's no heart inside that chest.

However, something inside his heart was screaming to say that he must check her.

He put his hand on the little girl's chest.

There's no malice on his face and mind but it is filled with concern and shock.

Yes, shock! Because he found out that the little girl is breathing normally but there's no heart beat on her chest.

Then, he immediately checked her pulse on her wrist and neck.

There's no heart beats but the little girl is obviously breathing because of the little girl's chest movement on inhaling and exhaling like there's nothing wrong at all! However, he was scared as his eyes was shaking.

The embalmer wanted to run but he was suddenly being grabbed by the little girl.

Her strength is no joke as it frightened him badly. He wanted to cry but there's no tears!

"H...Help me..." the little girl's pleading tone made his senses return his rationality. He looked up at her.

He saw her helpless but angelic face which opened his paternal instinct and decided to protect the little girl.

"Do you want water or...food?" he asked gently as he rubbed the little girl's soft and fluffy hair. Although the little girl is naked because she is a corpse, the embalmer looked at her without malice.

"Water...please" the little girl said with her weak tone. The embalmer picked up the water bottle he always stock up inside the drawer in case he felt thirsty every time he is embalming a corpse.

He opened the cap and gave the water bottle to her.

The little girl still cannot sit up because of her injuries caused by the murderer so the embalmer helped her.

He supported her back upward and let her sipped on the water bottle. The little girl is obviously thirsty and she finished the whole bottle of water.

She laid down back to where she was and stared on the ceiling.

The embalmer felt complicated and didn't know what to do.

Should he tell the parents of the child that she's not dead yet?

'Wait. She doesn't have a heart. Which means, she's dead but she's also alive...Ughhh!' he thought and was tugging his hair, not because he is reluctant to help her but because of the recent rumors about the little girl's mother.

'I guess, I need to ask her' he convinced himself and looked up again to the little girl.

"Do you want to see your mother?" the embalmer asked as his eyes were looking at her with full of pity.

The little girl looked at her side where the embalmer was standing and shook her head.

Her eyes shone brightly and smiled.

'Uhhh... I'm not the skeleton lich from before. I need to restrain myself' she thought.

Unbeknownst to the embalmer, the little girl awakened her past life's memory as the most fearsome lich from the another world - the world of magic and sword.