A Wound that Never Heals
Chapter 121

Chapter 121

Chapter 121 How’s My Grandma?

As Nathen remembered, he had looked at Darlene at a close distance.

When Darlene was in a coma, he took the advantage of being Darlene’s doctor to check

her eyes

and tongue. When he did that, he leaned down to her.

But they had never been so close as now. At such a distance, he felt that the tips of their noses weretouching.

It was as if they were in a very intimate relationship.

He had never been a gentle and kind person. Darlene just did not remember him. Before he haddisguised himself since several years ago, he had never had any friends or close relationships.

Being kind or easygoing had never been words to describe him. And Darlene would not think theprevious Nathen and Nathen who he was now were the same person.

Darlene never knew that she had always been in his sight for years, while she had not even noticed hisexistence.

Nathen remembered that the first time he saw Darlene was not long after she was adopted by theGallard family when she was twelve.

At the Elicott family’s dinner party, he stood on the stairs leading to the living room, leaning against therailing as he smoked. When he looked down, he saw the girl’s face.

Among the crowd was she following Avery, trying to get closer to Avery but afraid of getting too close.

With her eyes fixed on Avery’s back, her unease and not fitting in were obvious on her

face.

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But when the party ended, Avery left without looking back at her once.

At that moment, Nathen thought that she might be an unwelcome person as he was.

His attention on Darlene was perhaps because he felt they were from the same world, or because hertimidity made him curious.

Now, she was close at hand. He could easily touch her.

Nathen leaned closer. His breath might stir Darlene from sleep. Her eyelashes could be seen trembling.

Nathen’s hand propped against the pillow stiffened. He found it silly that he after all dared not touch her.

He dared not touch her. For such a long time, he had got the chance to, but he had never

dared to.

Slowly tightening his palm, he suddenly felt disgusted with himself.

On the bed, Darlene felt a little uncomfortable. She half unconsciously called “Nigel“.

Nathen immediately straightened up. When he turned around and stepped quickly outside, he found hispalms all sweaty. As if he had done something bad, he did not even have the courage to look back. Heleft the ward.

In the hallway, a nurse came over with a small cart. Seeing Nathen’s strange look, she asked, “Dr.Elicott, is it the time to give Ms. Garcia a drip now?”

Nathen only responded with a “Yes” and hurriedly passed by her.

The nurse touched her face in confusion.

She thought, what was the matter? Why did Dr. Elicott look like he had just seen a

ghost?

Darlene did not wake up until the next morning. When she opened her eyes, Nigel was sitting beside herbed.

Avery brought some warm water to wash Darlene’s face. Nigel immediately stopped him with a long face.“Don’t touch my sister! She won’t wake up if you touch her!”

Avery stared at Nigel for a while before finally putting the towel back into the basin. “Then you do it.”

Avery would not be affected and quarrel with a man much younger than himself.

With a disgusted snort, Nigel walked over and took the basin. He then emptied the basin. in thebathroom and refilled it with warm water.

Avery was amused. He felt that he had grown better–tempered. “I can’t touch her, my water can’t beused?”

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Nigel wrung out the towel and wiped Darlene’s arms with it. He said defensively/“Who knows whetheryou have put anything harmful in the water?

“It’s not like you haven’t done anything more vicious than that. My sister must have been cursed to havemet you in her life.

“Bah, bah, bah. My sister is not cursed.”

When Nigel stopped talking and was about to wipe Darlene’s face, he found that Darlene was alreadyawake. But she did not look fully awake, as her eyes were half open.

Nigel thought he had seen it wrong. He rubbed his eyes and looked at Darlene again. Then he shoutedin disbelief, “Darlene, you are awake! Don’t fall asleep again. Look at me. I am Nigel!”

Darlene’s vision slowly turned from blurry to clear. After watching for a while, she could finally see Nigel’sface clearly.

Darlene came back to her senses. As Nigel was sitting at her bedside, she raised her hand and touchedNigel’s head. “You’re back. You’ve made me so worried.”

Nigel explained with guilt, “Dr. Elicott helped me out. He told me he had let you know that I was with him.Maybe he knew you would be worried about me and would want me back, so he didn’t tell you.”

Nigel liked Nathen better. He added, “Dr. Elicott said you would be worried, so as long as he kept mewith him, you wouldn’t leave.”

Darlene and Nigel only talked to each other, ignoring Avery at the side.

Darlene did not say much. To her, Nigel being back was enough to be happy about.

She nodded to Nigel’s words. “Dr. Elicott was nice. I’m happy that you’re alright. Did you take the pills asprescribed?”

Nigel took out some bottles of pills from his bag and said, “Yes. Dr. Elicott gave me these two kinds ofpills. He said they healed better than the previous ones.

“He also told me they were newly developed by the pharmaceutical company owned by the ElicottGroup. Dr. Elicott is the main person in charge of the project. But because of the complicated listingprocess, they are not in the market yet.”

Nigel handed the bottles to Darlene. “These are the two kinds of pills. But Dr. Elicott

said there was a low stock, so he could only give me a week’s supply. When I finish them, I can get morefrom him.”

Avery took the bottles from Nigel’s hand and looked at them with a sullen face. “The pills are not evenlisted yet. How can he let you take them?

“Medication can’t be easily changed. Now he only gives a week’s amount at a time. Doesn’t that meanyour brother always has to ask him for the pills?”

Darlene had doubts about Nathen in her mind, but she did not want to say something mean before ayoung child like Nigel.

So Darlene comforted Nigel, “It’s okay. Don’t listen to Avery’s nonsense. You just ask Dr. Elicott for thepills when you need them.”

Darlene noticed that Nigel’s eyes were red like he had cried. That reminded her that she

had not seen her grandma.

Darlene thought something bad might have happened. She turned to look at Avery. “Where’s mygrandma? Is she out of the emergency room? Is she alright?”

Seeing that Avery was silent, she struggled to sit up on the bed. “Tell me. How’s my grandma?”