Chapter 319: Heart Overload
When it came to feelings, the human heart could take a lot. Happiness, sadness, rage, heartbreak, disappointment, and unimaginable joy. Whatever emotion was thrown at it, the heart could take it.
But like with everything else in the world, even it, had its limits.
Too many emotions felt all at once. Or if one particular emotion exceeded the limit. Like maybe feeling too much sadness, or too much happiness. Then the heart just couldn’t take it, and sometimes it would just stop, and that would be it, a life over just like that.
Derek did not like to think on such things. But he was pretty certain that that had been the route that he was heading.
His heart had been working at maximum capacity for weeks. People might say heartbreak, like it was something that just happened all at once.
Like a bone snapping in half in a single instant. But the difference between bones breaking, and a heart breaking was that a heartbreak happened over and over. And it was a slow, painful thing that never seemed to go away.
Making it hard to breathe, to think, to do anything productive, and Derek had been enduring it for weeks. He had been so glad when he and Emily had reconnected that he’d instantly felt all of those symptoms disappear as though banished by magic.
But even with the joy of having his Emily back.
Another emotion had soon enveloped his heart, amplifying the closer they had gotten to Haven manor.