A Wound that Never Heals
Chapter 224

Chapter 224

Chapter 224 I'll Take You Home

Darlene tried her best to sit up from the ground. She was trembling. She moved backward until herback was against the wall by the door.

Darlene's face was full of fear, and her body became numb. She could hardly feel the pain in her heart.

Darlene shook her head. The cold sweat soaked her back. "My heart donor is a cancer patient. Dr.Elicott was just here to keep me company because I was having a heart transplant. You must've beenmistaken..."

Leana interrupted her, "He said that you didn't know it. He asked me to keep it from you and not toblame you.

"But Ms. Garcia, you already know that my brother gave his heart to you. He has died for you. Ms.Garcia, tell me. How can I not resent you? How can I not tell you the truth?"

Large beads of sweat began to drip down Darlene's forehead. She had a booming sensation in herears, and she could hear her heartbeats clearly.

The more resistant she was, the clearer the heartbeats became.

The sound was extremely terrifying. It was like a sharp voice asking her, "Darlene, you were dying. Theperson who should die was you. Why did you take someone else's life?

"Darlene, his heart is in your chest. You can feel it day and night.

"In the dead of night, when it is quiet, you can hear it beating clearly. How can you take a healthyperson's life and continue to live in peace?

"Darlene, Nathen didn't do anything wrong. Your sufferings have nothing to do with him. How can youtake his life?"

Darlene began to tremble. She struggled to raise her hands and cover her ears tightly, trying to blockthe sound in her ears.

But it was useless. The more tightly Darlene covered her ears, the louder the sound became.

Darlene put forth her strength to cover her ears with her fingertips scratching her scalp. She felt thatshe was about to suffocate.

Darlene had lost control. Her face was covered in tears. And all she felt was overwhelming fear. Sheopened her mouth, but she couldn't make a sound.

Leana looked at Darlene. She also shed tears. Leana was over thirty years old. She couldn't rememberwhen the last time she cried was.

Leana's voice was filled with despair. "Darlene, I hate you. I shouldn't have let Grandpa take Nathen tothe Gallard family's banquet back then.

"I wish he never got to know you. Nathen is my beloved brother. I'm proud of him. He is so outstanding.He is the best doctor. He can manage the company in place of Grandpa.

"But everything was ruined due to you. He is gone."

Leana reached out and grabbed Darlene's arm. Plop! Leana knelt in front of her and burst into tears.

"Ms. Garcia, he is my only brother and my grandfather's only grandson.

"My grandfather will be over eighty years old when I get married. He was counting on Nathen to takecare of him in his later years because my parents had died. How am my grandfather supposed to bear

the grief?"

Darlene's face was pale. Her voice was hoarse and weak. "You are mistaken. Dr. Elicott didn't die.

"I don't want anyone to donate his heart to me. I don't want that cancer patient's heart either. I will replaceDr. Elicott and ask him to go home with you. I won't see him anymore. I won't call him."

Please don't let me face that kind of result. Don't let me live another person's life.

I'm not worthy of that. Nobody should die for me. I'm not afraid of death. I can't let someone else die forme.

If this heart is really Nathen's, I should not die. But how am I supposed to live with his heart?

Darlene's voice was trembling. "Ms. Elicott, Dr. Elicott didn't die. It can't be his heart. Dr. Elicott musthave gone out for something. Called him. Go and replace him. You made a mistake, really."

Leana began to lose control. Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared at Darlene's chest. Suddenly,Leana reached out.

"Give it to me. Give it back to my brother. How can you ask me to calm down? I can't calm down. I don'twant to calm down. I want to take my brother home."

Avery, Dakota, and Lucian rushed over. When Avery saw this, he quickly walked forward to stop Leana.

Avery was too anxious. When he saw Leana reach out her hand to Darlene, Avery pushed Leanaaway. But he pushed too hard. Leana lost her balance and fell to the ground.

Darlene stretched out her trembling hand to help Leana up. "I'm sorry. I really didn't know that. Hewouldn't have died for me. It must be a misunderstanding. We should look for him."

Leana got up. She was out of her mind, and her face was full of hatred.

Leana stared at Avery and shouted at the top of her lungs, "You love her, don't you? You said that youcould die for her, didn't you? Avery, I wish you were the dead one. Why didn't you die and give yourheart to Darlene?"

Leana then looked at Dakota and Lucian, "Isn't she your long-lost daughter?

There are so many people in the Swale family. Anyone of you could have donated your heart to her.What did it have to do with my brother? Why did my brother die?"

Dakota knew that no one could ask Leana to calm down at this time, but she still tried to comfortLeana. "Ms. Elicott, please..."

Leana's eyes were red, and she interrupted Dakota, "Get lost. Get lost! I can't calm down. You couldn'task me to calm down unless you had also donated your heart. Would you donate your heart? Leaveme alone!"

Martin also arrived.

He stood there. His old face was filled with sorrow. He watched silently. After a long while, he orderedthe bodyguard beside him to take Leana away.

Leana looked at the familiar bodyguard who was approaching and then looked at Martin, who was atthe end of the corridor. She cried miserably, "Grandpa, Nathen has..."

Martin said in a hoarse voice, "Let's go. You can't change it even if you kill her now. You can't get himback even if you take out the heart?"

Leana kept crying. "I don't care. It's my brother's heart. No one can take it away. I want to take it home."

Before Leana finished her words, the bodyguard beside her hit her neck.

Leana, who had been crying and shouting, suddenly fainted.

The bodyguard took Leana away. The chaos finally ended. Darlene felt there was some blood in herthroat.

She coughed violently for a while and spat out a mouthful of blood that was mixed with sour fluid. Sheblacked out and fell like a leaf.

Avery quickly reached out to catch her. But someone else went forward from behind and caughtDarlene before she fell to the ground.

"I will take you home. I won't let anything happen to you."