Delete My Love for You novel Chapter 189

“He’s dead?!”

The words landed soft as a feather but hit Darren like an avalanche. Coldness seeped into his bones, from head to toe.

Charlotte gazed at Darren, a faint smile curling on her lips as she watched him freeze, as if plunged into icy water. “That scumbag once told the press all about his dreams, remember? He said he wanted to spend his life investing in the development of an artificial heart. That same year, I wrote this paper.”

“So, I suppose my dearly departed first love wasn’t a total waste, at least not when it came to scientific research.”

“Wouldn’t you agree, Mr. Harrington?”

Her words fell with a chilling finality. The light in Darren’s eyes faded.

A memory rose up in his mind—an interview from years ago.

It had been the anniversary of his parents’ death, twenty-four years since the tragedy.

Mr. Nathan Harrington had told him his parents died from gunshot wounds to the heart.

So, when a reporter asked about his dreams, he’d looked into the camera and blurted out, “I want to dedicate my life—and my fortune—to developing an artificial heart.”

That way, maybe no one would ever have to endure the agony he did, losing both parents to the irreplaceability of the human heart.

He had never imagined that a throwaway comment would etch itself into someone else’s soul, burning through countless sleepless nights, finally distilled into a paper capable of upending an entire field.

He never dreamed the person who brought his lifelong wish to life was Charlotte—the same Charlotte who used to bring him homemade soup to his study late at night, who pressed his shirts and made him breakfast before dawn.

She had always shone so brightly, yet for his sake, she had hidden her light, humbled and humiliated in the darkness…

A lump rose in Darren’s throat. For so long, he couldn’t understand what he’d done wrong, why his grandfather always told him he was mistaken. Now he finally understood—he had been so terribly, unforgivably wrong.

He looked up at Charlotte again.

But Charlotte had already turned away, her expression cold and distant. There was one more thing she didn’t even bother to mention—that the inspiration for the super chip in her brain had come from him, too.

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