MENDING HEARTS

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:08:50 +0000

"She fell in love with the man who was trying his hardest not to love her back."

At twenty-one, 𝗡𝗶𝗸𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗮 has already learned that life can change with a single heartbeat.

Living with a heart condition means hospitals, endless tests, medications, and regular appointments with the one man she can never seem to stop thinking about.

𝗗𝗿. 𝗥𝗲𝘆𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗻, one of the country's most respected cardiologists.

She fell for him the very first day she met him.

He didn't.

To him, she was just another patient.

"She's my patient. That's all."

A sentence he repeated in his head a hundred times.

Because doctors don't fall for their patients.

Because professional boundaries exist for a reason.

Because twelve years is too big of an age gap.

And because getting attached could cost them both far more than a broken heart.

But what happens when the girl who was supposed to be just another appointment slowly becomes a part of his everyday life?

When every ECG, every follow-up visit, every smile, and every stubborn argument makes it harder to keep his heart uninvolved?

She has a weak heart.

He has every reason not to break it.

Yet love has never cared about rules, timing... or age.

A slow-burn medical romance filled with longing glances, stolen moments, impossible choices, heartbeats that matter a little too much, and a love that was never supposed to happen.