A Wound that Never Heals

Chapter 253

A Wound that Never Heals Chapter 253

Chapter 253 She Never Comes Back

The Gallard family had never had such a quiet New Year’s Day.

Darlene was with them every time in the past ten years, and each time, she was the most neglected.

And this year, Darlene was absent. The most invisible person was gone, yet because of that, the Gallard family’s atmosphere was dead as anything.

Avery never came back to the Gallard’s house. Sandra, the Gallard family’s daughter-in-law, who had pretended to be attentive, was imprisoned. Erick was kicked out of the family. And Owen, Avery’s father, was depressed because of what had happened to Darlene, so he moved out.

Both the Elicott family and the Swale family had a fallout with the Gallard family, and no one would come over to chat.

Andrew was stubborn. He wanted nothing but for Avery to come back. Now that Avery wasn’t back, Andrew didn’t allow outsiders. to come to the Gallard’s house on New Year’s Day.

It had been almost a month, yet hardly a word was spoken in the Gallard’s house, and it was as still as if no one lived there.

Andrew snapped one day.

After the police finished their search, Avery continued to call many people to look for

Darlene near the Beaufort Sea and circulated missing person notices.

Several days had passed, and Avery could barely think straight. He had dozens of helicopters spread leaflets all over the

Beaufort Sea and the beaches.

On the leaflet was a photo, which showed

Nathen’s face clearly.

There was a link attached below. Through the link, one could see that day Nathen entered the abandoned warehouse.

There were only a few words on the leaflet, saying, “Darlene, Nathen is still alive. Come back if you believe it. And if you don’t, that’s more of the reason why you should come back and see for yourself.”

There were tens of thousands of leaflets distributed by helicopters. When the wind blew, they were scattered on the Beaufort

Sea and the beaches. What was more, they were spread to dozens of miles of residential and tourist areas nearby.

The leaflets were everything, and it looked like it was snowing heavily.

The result of the extremely shocking scene was that the news went viral quickly, and it was all over the media. Almost everyone knew that Nathen, the only son of the Elicott family, who was rumored to be “the first living person to donate his heart”, was still alive.

The following result was that when Avery was directing the leaflet distribution work on the beach nearby Beaufort Sea, he was arrested by the police on the spot, on the grounds that he seriously disturbed public order, damaged the sea, and polluted the environment.

Hearing the news, Martin was so furious that he almost vomited blood. “He has lost it! He has completely lost it!” © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

The police detained Avery overnight. He confessed to all the charges and paid a much higher fine.

Lastly, Avery paid the fines, and those pilots who flew the helicopters were detained for half a month.

Avery kept distributing the leaflets. Yet he stopped using the helicopters. Instead, he had a large group of people doing it for him, and they went everywhere on the streets.

Meanwhile, after knowing that Darlene fell into the sea and died, Martin knew that he was responsible and that no one could stop the current Avery.

Therefore, seeing Avery like this upset

Martin, and he was worried that Nathen might be onto something. However, Martin still didn’t try to stop Avery.

In fact, no one got to stop Avery anyway. He was completely out of his mind. When facing the muzzle of a policeman’s gun, he was still fearless.

Tens of thousands of leaflets were distributed, and news reports and missing person notices never stopped. Another month had passed.

There were more and more sunny days.

Chirping could be heard everywhere, flowers blossomed, and vibrant spring had arrived.

Yet she never came back.

In the beginning, to find Darlene, Avery had done something out of the line. The police would come to interfere, and the media would often report relevant things about it.

After a while, people began to feel bored, so the media rarely came after him for interviews, and the police stopped giving him any trouble.

After being onlookers who were in for a show, everyone left, no longer interested.

And then it became clearer and clearer to

Avery that Darlene really wasn’t coming back. Everyone else had accepted it, and he was the only one fooling himself into not accepting it.

It was as if as long as he continued to search, she would come back one day.

Under the warm sunlight, he stood at the intersection where people came and went with a deep sense of loss. “Cyrus, is there something I’ve forgotten to do? Is there somewhere I haven’t checked? Is there something important I haven’t tried?”

Cyrus did not say a word. After a long time, he tentatively said, “Mr. Gallard, you need to rest.”

Cyrus knew Avery the best. The haggard man with dark circles under his eyes in front of him was nothing like the previous Avery he knew.

In a month, Avery had lost nearly 20 pounds and was almost disfigured. He was completely different.

For a month, he probably didn’t even get 24 hours of real sleep.

Avery looked at the backs of many passers-by and saw that he was beginning to hallucinate. He felt that they all looked like her.

He thought, this isn’t good. I haven’t found her. I can’t afford to have hallucinations. I have to stay normal.

He felt that his vision was getting a bit dark, and his hands trembled as he reached for his wrinkled suit pocket, wanting to take out a cigarette to keep himself awake.

The second he took out the cigarette from the pocket, his vision went completely black, and he fell to the ground with a “bang” and fell into a coma.

Cyrus panicked. He immediately helped Avery into the car, rushing to the hospital.

At the same time, there was a car on its way to a villa on the outskirts of town, not far from the Beaufort Sea.

The woman driving the car noticed the scattered leaflets at the entrance of the villa and frowned.

Then she got out of the car. When she wanted to pick up those leaflets and throw them in the trash can, she saw the photo and the name on them. She remembered something and was stunned.

After a moment of hesitation, she took the leaflets into the villa and asked the doctor inside, “How is she today?”