A Wound that Never Heals

Chapter 121 How’s My Grandma?
As Nathen remembered, he had looked at Darlene at a close distance.
When Darlene was in a coma, he took the advantage of being Darlene’s doctor to check
her eyes
and tongue. When he did that, he leaned down to her.
But they had never been so close as now. At such a distance, he felt that the tips of their noses were touching.
It was as if they were in a very intimate relationship.
He had never been a gentle and kind person. Darlene just did not remember him. Before he had disguised himself since several
years ago, he had never had any friends or close relationships.
Being kind or easygoing had never been words to describe him. And Darlene would not think the previous Nathen and Nathen
who he was now were the same person.
Darlene never knew that she had always been in his sight for years, while she had not even noticed his existence.
Nathen remembered that the first time he saw Darlene was not long after she was adopted by the Gallard family when she was
twelve.
At the Elicott family’s dinner party, he stood on the stairs leading to the living room, leaning against the railing as he smoked.
When he looked down, he saw the girl’s face.
Among the crowd was she following Avery, trying to get closer to Avery but afraid of getting too close.
With her eyes fixed on Avery’s back, her unease and not fitting in were obvious on her
face.
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But when the party ended, Avery left without looking back at her once.

At that moment, Nathen thought that she might be an unwelcome person as he was.
His attention on Darlene was perhaps because he felt they were from the same world, or because her timidity made him curious.
Now, she was close at hand. He could easily touch her.
Nathen leaned closer. His breath might stir Darlene from sleep. Her eyelashes could be seen trembling.
Nathen’s hand propped against the pillow stiffened. He found it silly that he after all dared not touch her.
He dared not touch her. For such a long time, he had got the chance to, but he had never
dared to.
Slowly tightening his palm, he suddenly felt disgusted with himself.
On the bed, Darlene felt a little uncomfortable. She half unconsciously called “Nigel“.
Nathen immediately straightened up. When he turned around and stepped quickly outside, he found his palms all sweaty. As if
he had done something bad, he did not even have the courage to look back. He left the ward.
In the hallway, a nurse came over with a small cart. Seeing Nathen’s strange look, she asked, “Dr. Elicott, is it the time to give
Ms. Garcia a drip now?”
Nathen only responded with a “Yes” and hurriedly passed by her.
The nurse touched her face in confusion.
She thought, what was the matter? Why did Dr. Elicott look like he had just seen a
ghost?
Darlene did not wake up until the next morning. When she opened her eyes, Nigel was sitting beside her bed.
Avery brought some warm water to wash Darlene’s face. Nigel immediately stopped him with a long face. “Don’t touch my sister!
She won’t wake up if you touch her!”
Avery stared at Nigel for a while before finally putting the towel back into the basin. “Then you do it.”

Avery would not be affected and quarrel with a man much younger than himself.
With a disgusted snort, Nigel walked over and took the basin. He then emptied the basin. in the bathroom and refilled it with
warm water.
Avery was amused. He felt that he had grown better–tempered. “I can’t touch her, my water can’t be used?”
and
Nigel wrung out the towel and wiped Darlene’s arms with it. He said defensively/“Who knows whether you have put anything
harmful in the water?
“It’s not like you haven’t done anything more vicious than that. My sister must have been cursed to have met you in her life.
“Bah, bah, bah. My sister is not cursed.”
When Nigel stopped talking and was about to wipe Darlene’s face, he found that Darlene was already awake. But she did not
look fully awake, as her eyes were half open.
Nigel thought he had seen it wrong. He rubbed his eyes and looked at Darlene again. Then he shouted in disbelief, “Darlene,
you are awake! Don’t fall asleep again. Look at me. I am Nigel!”
Darlene’s vision slowly turned from blurry to clear. After watching for a while, she could finally see Nigel’s face clearly.
Darlene came back to her senses. As Nigel was sitting at her bedside, she raised her hand and touched Nigel’s head. “You’re
back. You’ve made me so worried.”
Nigel explained with guilt, “Dr. Elicott helped me out. He told me he had let you know that I was with him. Maybe he knew you
would be worried about me and would want me back, so he didn’t tell you.”
Nigel liked Nathen better. He added, “Dr. Elicott said you would be worried, so as long as he kept me with him, you wouldn’t
leave.”
Darlene and Nigel only talked to each other, ignoring Avery at the side.
Darlene did not say much. To her, Nigel being back was enough to be happy about.

She nodded to Nigel’s words. “Dr. Elicott was nice. I’m happy that you’re alright. Did you take the pills as prescribed?”
Nigel took out some bottles of pills from his bag and said, “Yes. Dr. Elicott gave me these two kinds of pills. He said they healed
better than the previous ones.
“He also told me they were newly developed by the pharmaceutical company owned by the Elicott Group. Dr. Elicott is the main
person in charge of the project. But because of the complicated listing process, they are not in the market yet.”
Nigel handed the bottles to Darlene. “These are the two kinds of pills. But Dr. Elicott
said there was a low stock, so he could only give me a week’s supply. When I finish them, I can get more from him.”
Avery took the bottles from Nigel’s hand and looked at them with a sullen face. “The pills are not even listed yet. How can he let
you take them?
“Medication can’t be easily changed. Now he only gives a week’s amount at a time. Doesn’t that mean your brother always has
to ask him for the pills?”
Darlene had doubts about Nathen in her mind, but she did not want to say something mean before a young child like Nigel.
So Darlene comforted Nigel, “It’s okay. Don’t listen to Avery’s nonsense. You just ask Dr. Elicott for the pills when you need
them.”
Darlene noticed that Nigel’s eyes were red like he had cried. That reminded her that she
had not seen her grandma.
Darlene thought something bad might have happened. She turned to look at Avery. “Where’s my grandma? Is she out of the
emergency room? Is she alright?”
Seeing that Avery was silent, she struggled to sit up on the bed. “Tell me. How’s my grandma?”