Chapter 253
A Wound that Never Heals Chapter 253
Chapter 253 She Never Comes Back
The Gard 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
Gard family’s atmosphere was dead as anything.
Avery never came back to the Gard’s house. Sandra, the Gard family’s daughter-inw, 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 Gard family, and no one would
come over to chat.
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Andrew was stubborn. He wanted nothing but for Avery toe back. Now that Avery wasn’t back,
Andrew didn’t allow outsiders. toe to the Gard’s house on New Year’s Day.
It had been almost a month, yet hardly a word was spoken in the Gard’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 circted 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 shoulde 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!”
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 arge 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 waspletely 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 woulde 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’ting back. Everyone else had epted it, and he was the only one
fooling himself into not epting it.
It was as if as long as he continued to search, she woulde 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. Gard, 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 waspletely 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 wentpletely ck, and he fell to
the ground with a “bang” and fell into aa.
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 vi 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 vi 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 vi and asked the doctor inside, “How is
she today?”