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.

was a photo, which

Nathen’s face clearly.

link attached below. Through the link, one

a few words on 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 you should come back and

of leaflets distributed by helicopters. When the wind blew, they were scattered on the Beaufort

spread to dozens of miles

everything, and it looked like it was

viral quickly, and it was all over the media. Almost everyone knew that Nathen, the only son of the Elicott family, who was rumored to be “the

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

news, Martin was so furious that he almost vomited

police detained Avery overnight. He confessed to all the charges and paid a

those pilots who flew the helicopters were detained for

had a large group of people doing it for him, and they went everywhere on

into the sea and died, Martin knew that he was responsible and that no one

Avery like

and he was worried that Nathen might be onto something. However, Martin still didn’t try to

was completely out of his mind.

distributed, and news reports and missing person notices never stopped. Another month had

and more sunny

flowers blossomed, and vibrant spring had

she never

to find Darlene, Avery had done something out of the line. The police would come to interfere,

feel bored, so the media rarely came after him for interviews, and the police

in for a show, everyone left, no longer

then it became clearer