A Wound that Never Heals

A Wound that Never Heals Chapter 253

Chapter 253 She Never Comes Back

The Gallard family had never had such a quiet New Year’s Day.

Darlene was with them every time in the past ten years, and each time, she was the most neglected.

And this year, Darlene was absent. The most invisible person was gone, yet because of that, the Gallard family’s atmosphere was dead as anything.

Avery never came back to the Gallard’s house. Sandra, the Gallard family’s daughter-in-law, who had pretended to be attentive, was imprisoned. Erick was kicked out of the family. And Owen, Avery’s father, was depressed because of what had happened to Darlene, so he moved out.

Both the Elicott family and the Swale family had a fallout with the Gallard family, and no one would come over to chat.

Andrew was stubborn. He wanted nothing but for Avery to come back. Now that Avery wasn’t back, Andrew didn’t allow outsiders. to come to the Gallard’s house on New Year’s Day.

It had been almost a month, yet hardly a word was spoken in the Gallard’s house, and it was as still as if no one lived there.

Andrew snapped one day.

After the police finished their search, Avery continued to call many people to look for

Darlene near the Beaufort Sea and circulated missing person notices.

Several days had passed, and Avery could barely think straight. He had dozens of helicopters spread leaflets all over the

Beaufort Sea and the beaches.

the leaflet was a photo, which

Nathen’s face clearly.

attached below. Through the link, one could see that

the leaflet, saying, “Darlene, Nathen is still alive. Come back if you believe it. And if you don’t, that’s more of the reason why

of leaflets distributed by helicopters. When

the beaches. What was more, they were spread to dozens of miles of residential and tourist areas

it looked like it was snowing heavily.

news went viral quickly, and it was all over the media. Almost everyone knew that Nathen, the only son of the Elicott family,

result was that when Avery was directing the leaflet distribution work on the beach nearby Beaufort Sea, he was arrested by the police on

was so furious that he almost vomited blood. “He has lost it! He

overnight. He confessed to all the charges and

Avery paid the fines, and those pilots who flew

using the helicopters. Instead, he had a large group of people doing it for him, and they

the sea and died, Martin knew that he was responsible

seeing Avery like this upset

Nathen might be onto something. However, Martin still didn’t try to stop Avery.

to stop Avery anyway. He was completely out of his mind. When facing the muzzle of a policeman’s

thousands of leaflets were distributed, and news reports and missing person notices never stopped. Another

were more and more

flowers blossomed, and vibrant spring

she never came

of the line. The police would come

bored, so the media rarely came

being onlookers who were in for a show, everyone left, no longer

then it became clearer and