Chapter Twenty-Three
Shanti rested her head against Hsing's chest. Her body felt exhausted. She thought she heard the sound of two heartbeats. She thought she felt two beats on different parts of her cheek.
"Yes, I have two hearts." Hsing wrapped his arms around her and the world fell away from them.
"Is that what makes your kind go crazy? Because you love twice as hard?"
His sharp inhale drowned the sounds of his hearts. "The process of circulating liquid through the body differs from circulating pure energy. Love is a concept in the mind, not the circulatory system."
It was an explanation she would've given a few days ago. Love wasn't real, it was made up. But that was before she'd met Chen and he'd burned himself into her single heart, made it beat twice as fast whenever he was nea
