A Wound that Never Heals

Chapter 52

Chapter 52 Come to Me

The mall was crowded and noisy.

Darlene looked over, and Avery seemed to feel her gaze at once. He looked

sideways into hers.

He sat in his wheelchair and looked haggard, making her feel that he was

someone else.

His eyes, which had always been cold and aloof, now looked exhausted. The

second he saw Darlene, the emotions in his eyes changed from a moment of astonishment and disbelief to surprise and eagerness.

The police had told him it wasn’t her, but it still didn’t feel right. It was not

until he actually saw her face that he was sure she was still alive.

He slowly tightened his hands resting on the armrests of his wheelchair,

feeling that someone was squeezing his heart. For a moment, he felt

suffocating.

He did not even dare to make a sound or move. The policeman was still

talking on the other end of the line, yet he couldn’t utter a word.

He looked at her, at the astonishment and suspicion in her eyes, and then the

fear that quickly replaced those feelings.

She was afraid of him. It looked like she was looking at a fierce ghost that she

had finally gotten rid of.

Their looking at each other lasted for less than a second, and Darlene did not

move until someone passed by her and accidentally bumped into her shoulder. Then the person apologized.

Darlene’s body shook slightly, and she came back to her senses as if she was

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someone waking up from a nightmare.

Her breathing became rapid at once, and she even forgot the pain in her heart. She took a few steps back, and then she turned around with a pale face

and stumbled into the crowd.

Avery felt great heartache. He quickly pushed his wheelchair to chase after her. “Darlene… Darlene! Hear me out!”

The woman in front of him seemed to hear nothing. She ran away from him as if he were some kind of fierce beast. She was so flustered while trying to stay away from him that she kept bumping into others along the way.

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Avery sped up pushing the wheelchair, staring in the direction where he could no longer see her back while chasing after her anxiously. He felt that something he had lost was about to disappear before him once more.

a grin. The kid’s parents were shouting and

the shopping cart happened

wheelchair spun sideways, and as he looked only in the

fell uncontrollably

up with a terrified

in the mall, and they have

as well. You needn’t hurry to find her yourself.”

the trouble cried out in horror, and

apologizing to

seemed that Avery didn’t hear them at all. He looked at Cyrus and said

her. Get Mr. Mcmahon to bring his men over

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down the mall and

did as he was told. The mall was locked down, and those irrelevant

the spacious corridors, only Avery and the police officers were still

were hiding in the fire exit and could hear those footsteps outside,

still looking for

in the mall had subsided, making the police and the

that her forehead was

shaking uncontrollably.

was a little dark. She had her back against

was so dark, yet she saw something in his eyes that she had never seen

more, as long

and kept looking, they would find Darlene and

eventually.

to the mall were locked, and

nothing they could do but wait for

that it was a

and said in a low voice, “Dr.

you again.”

him as soon as

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around, as long as you are divorced, at least the police

take you back.”

know. I will

placed one hand on her side. “Alright. The lawyer I set you up with

long as you

just a matter

fire door was knocked on by something

heard Avery say while collecting

come out.

trembled, and she gritted her teeth while meeting

to run

stairs with Nathen,

of the policeman’s gun

the policeman. “If

take a bullet, then go ahead and

sleeve

front of Nathen, staring at

holding the

black muzzle was pointed at her, and her eyes were scarlet. “If you

shoot

and smiled, “Is that so?

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