Borrowedheartbeats Stories

Diego has lived most of his life with a diagnosis hanging over him: emphysema, a rare disease that makes each breath a struggle. At 19, he learns he has only three months left, a brutal countdown he faces with resignation. But when his childhood friend, Mark, moves back into town, Diego's world is turned upside down. Once inseparable, the two boys had been forced apart when Mark's family moved to the city twelve years ago. Now, Mark is back, and they're even sharing a roof-a twist of fate that rekindles memories and feelings Diego had long buried. As their friendship deepens, Diego and Mark discover an undeniable connection that goes beyond friendship. Despite the ticking clock and Diego's fading health, they fall quietly, deeply, and hopelessly in love. But with Diego's future so uncertain, they decide to keep their love a secret, protecting their fragile moments together from the outside world. In the midst of pain, laughter, and stolen glances, Diego learns what it means to truly live-even as his borrowed heartbeats begin to slip away. This title conveys the precious, limited time Diego has left and the intense love he shares with Mark, making each heartbeat feel borrowed and meaningful. It hints at both the beauty and tragedy of their relationship.

Felix King has been living on borrowed time-and a borrowed heart. Ten years after the car crash that killed his parents and almost took his life, he returns home for the first time, older, sober, and still haunted by the night that changed everything.The house he grew up in now belongs to the only family he's ever known-and the girl he once loved and broke beyond repair. But when fragments of memory begin to surface and the truth behind the crash unravels, Felix discovers that the heart beating in his chest once belonged to someone connected to the very man who destroyed his family. A story about guilt, forgiveness, and the fragile miracle of being alive- How do you live with a heart that isn't yours? And what happens when it remembers before you do?