“I do have a heart!” I said as Dane slid into the driver’s seat. Blood was pounding in my ears, and how could that be possible without a heart to pump it, I told myself. “I do, I do have a heart, that stupid bitch, I have a heart,” I pounded my chest as I spoke. What the woman said had shaken me badly. Where one should be, there’s only ice and darkness. Was that the reason why I was so cold all the time?

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From chapter 4 of The Unseeing.