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

bang, the shopping cart happened to hit

wheelchair spun sideways, and as he looked only in the direction of

body fell uncontrollably

with a

the mall, and they have security

hurry to find her

kid who had caused the trouble cried out in

apologizing to

didn’t hear them at all. He looked at Cyrus

Mr. Mcmahon to

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down the mall and

immediately did as he was told. The mall was locked down, and those irrelevant in the mall were quickly cleared out.

the spacious corridors, only Avery and

Nathen were hiding in the fire exit and could hear those footsteps outside, which were sometimes very close

were still looking for her.

subsided, making the police and

forehead was

shaking uncontrollably.

little dark. She had her back against the wall, and Nathen

that she had never seen before. He looked down

forever. What was more, as long as Avery and

looking, they

eventually.

to the mall were locked, and there were surveillance cameras

There was nothing they could do but wait for the doors to open.

was a

voice, “Dr. Elicott, I’m

you again.”

You should divorce him as soon

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you are divorced, at least the

take you

“I know. I will

“Alright. The lawyer

good one. As long as you

a matter

soon as he finished speaking, the fire door was knocked on

heard Avery say

out. Don’t

she gritted her teeth

to run

stairs with Nathen, the fire door behind them

the black muzzle of the policeman’s gun was pointed

at them from behind the policeman. “If you are

a bullet, then go

grasped Nathen’s sleeve tightly and

in front

holding the

and her eyes were scarlet.

shoot

and smiled, “Is that so? Look

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