A Wound that Never Heals
Chapter 159

Chapter 159

Chapter 159 Darlene, Get Closer to Me

Nathen was holding a medical record folder, standing silently at Giovanni’s office door.

Nathen had just received the news that part of Darlene’s important examination results. had come out.The nurse said that the results had been sent directly to Giovanni, and she even told Nathen, “Thesituation is not good.”

So Nathen immediately threw aside other things and wanted to ask Giovanni as Darlene’s attendingdoctor.

During this period, it was Nathen who treated Darlene. As a doctor, he had expected. how terribleDarlene’s condition would be and how fast it would worsen.

However, although Nathen had expected it, he was shocked to see Giovanni handing the critically illnotification to Gustave through the open door.

Darlene was about to die, and Giovanni was telling her family to prepare for the funeral.

Nathen was in a trance for a moment. No matter how many mental preparations he had made, he feltthat this result was a little too abrupt.

Inside, Giovanni’s voice sounded. “I reminded you before that with Ms. Garcia’s condition, drug treatmentwas not effective. It can only keep her in a stable and calm.

mood.

“If she is stimulated again, the consequences are unpredictable. If I am not wrong, something hadhappened to her before she suddenly fell ill and was sent to the hospital, right?”

Nathen clenched the medical record folder in his hand and recalled that when Darlene

had just been sent over, Aleena held the court file bag in her hand.

And when Aleena was in the sick room, she complained furiously, “Avery is a bastard. He still refuses todivorce. He really wants to drive Darlene to death…”

The word Avery filled Nathen’s mind.

Nathen turned around and directly entered the elevator to go to the underground. garage. He wanted todrive away.

Just as Nathen stepped out of the elevator and entered the garage, he saw Avery getting out of the carand walking over.

It was such a coincidence that Nathen did not have to think of a way to replace Avery.

Nathen strode over, and just as he was about to swing his fist, he remembered that Darlene was still inthe sick room.

Giovanni was about to leave soon. He would operate in another hospital later, so now Darlene had torely on Nathen.

In the end, Nathen did not punch Avery, who walked up to him and said, “Dr. Elicott, is Darlene here?Which ward is he in?”

It was rare for Avery to call Nathen so politely, probably because Avery was really

anxious to replace Darlene.

Nathen glanced at Avery and walked directly past him. “I don’t know.”

Avery frowned and turned around, wanting to stop Nathen. “Aren’t you her attending physician? Howcould Darlene not look for you when she came over? How could you not

know?”

Nathen did not respond with a single word and directly walked away.

Avery had no choice but to take out his phone and make a call.

He called Gustave and Darlene, but no one answered.

Avery called the hospital director, who was not familiar with Darlene, so Avery asked

the department director. After quite a while, he told Avery about Darlene’s current

ward.

Nathen walked to the other side of the garage and entered a control room familiarly.

It was a power control room. Except for maintenance workers or the person in charge, no one else wasallowed to enter.

However, the Elicott Group had invested in this hospital, so it was naturally not difficult for Nathen to getthe keys.

Nathen opened the door and went in. He then turned on his phone and looked at the hospital’s elevatorsurveillance video. He watched as Avery entered the elevator…

There were not many people entering the elevator from the underground garage in the hospital, but itwas still daytime, and Avery was not the only one getting into the

elevator.

When Avery entered the elevator, there were two women walking in together, talking

and laughing.

“It’s so cold. If he were not my boss, I wouldn’t have come to visit him. I was just worried that he woulddislike us and dock our pay if we didn’t come.”

“That’s right. It’s so cold. Even taxi fares have increased a lot. Oh, let’s split it. I’ll transfer the money toyou.”

They chatted and stole glances at Avery, who was beside them, from time to time.

Such a tall and handsome man could not be seen even on television. It seemed that their trip to thehospital today was worth it.

The two women exchanged glances and laughed quietly.

Strangely, the elevator didn’t stop on the first floor. Normally, most people got in the

elevator on the first floor.

After the elevator went up a few floors, the two women were still chatting. Suddenly, the elevatorstopped, and then there was the sound of an electric current. The lights in

the elevator went out.

The two women immediately screamed in unison. The surroundings fell into complete

darkness. Avery’s calm face quickly turned pale.

His head buzzed, and he vaguely heard anxious voices from the two women beside him.

“Why don’t I have my phone with me? Where’s your phone? Quickly take it out and turn. on theflashlight.”

“Isn’t my phone in your bag? Oh no. Was it left in the taxi? That’s my new phone. I just bought it for over1,200 dollars.”

Those voices were extremely noisy. Avery slowly crouched down along the elevator wall behind him.

Ever since Avery was young, he had been suffering from claustrophobia. From the moment he couldremember, his parents had always been at odds.

When Braelyn, Avery’s mother, was still alive, Owen rarely went home. Once he came

back, he quarreled with Braelyn.

They fought and smashed things in the bedroom, making it a mess.

Owen and Braelyn used to look very gentle and polite when they were outside. They were very good totheir subordinates, but almost no one knew that their relationship was extremely bad.

Braelyn was emulous, domineering, suspicious, and jealous. Her words were harsh, and she alwayssuspected that Owen was fooling around outside.

Owen couldn’t bear to act humbly in front of women. When they fought, Braelyn could never beat himbecause of the strength gap between men and women. Almost every time they fought, she was injured.

The dispute always ended in Braelyn’s screams. Owen directly left and wouldn’t come back within amonth or two.

The couple got along with each other like this until Avery was twenty years old and Braelyn passed away.Sandra married into the Gallard family.

Braelyn hated her husband, but as a mother, she still cared about her son.

Therefore, every time there was a big quarrel or even a fight, she was worried that Avery would beaccidentally injured, so she would directly stuff him into the wardrobe in the bedroom and close thewardrobe door, making Avery curl himself up inside.

Avery got claustrophobia at that time.

As a grown man, Avery felt that such a disease was embarrassing, so in these years,

almost no one knew about this.

In addition to Darlene, the few close elders of the Gallard family, and Avery’s psychologists, no one knewthat he had claustrophobia.

One of the psychologists was Leana, Nathen’s sister.

The voices of the women beside Avery became blurred. Avery felt as if it were two years ago. Darlenehelped him push the wheelchair. They were also in an elevator that suddenly malfunctioned.

Darlene crouched down in a hurry and leaned against him, who was still sitting in the wheelchair. Shepatiently comforted him, “It’s okay. Someone will come to repair it

soon. I’m here. Let’s wait a little longer.”

Avery recalled those two years. Darlene was thin and weak. When he was unable to

stand up, she seemed to be omnipotent. She always stayed by his side and took care of

him.

His mind flashed back to the past, and it seemed to be happening at this moment.

Avery reached out to the person beside him, and his entire body began to tremble. “Darlene, get closerto me. Don’t stand so far away.”