A Wound that Never Heals

Chapter 51

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Nathen’s face turned cold. “Leana, that’s enough.”

Leana stood up with the towel in her hand. “Fine. I’ll stop. I’ll pack up and

leave. I’ll just remind you of one thing. Behave yourself, and don’t do what

you shouldn’t do. If you cause too much trouble, no matter how influential

our family is, we may not be able to protect you.”

Nathen was a little impatient. “I know. You don’t have to worry about me.”

Leana walked to the stairs and turned back to say, “Grandpa heard that you

came to Lancaster. He wanted you to go to the company here to take a look

and review the annual report due. He is getting old every day. We should save

him as much trouble as possible.”

Nathen went straight to the kitchen. “I don’t have time these days. If it’s not

convenient for Grandpa to come, you may go and review it.”

Nathen entered the kitchen, asked Loretta out, rolled up his sleeves, and

prepared to cook.

Seeing that, Leana sneered at him, “Grandpa and I haven’t had a bite of your cooking in all these years. Good for you!”

Nathen did not look back. “I won’t keep you for a meal today. Loretta, Leana is leaving. Send her off.”

Leana was so angry that she did not go upstairs or pack up her things. She

took her bag and left.

Loretta had already fixed a couple of dishes in the kitchen. Nathen cooked

two more dishes and set up the cutlery before going upstairs to call Darlene

to eat.

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He knocked on the bedroom door a few times, but there was no response

from inside.

In the bedroom, Darlene had just taken a shower and cleaned up. Recently,

her heart disease had become more and more serious, and she had started to

get carsick now. On the way here, she had been feeling nauseous and wanted

to vomit.

The bathroom was a little stuffy. She got out and vomited for a while, and her

vomitus had blood mixed in it.

She took a deep breath, trying to feel better. She did not have a phone on her. When she saw a row of bookshelves in the bedroom, she casually flipped through the books.

She pulled out a book, and a few photos fell out. The person in the photos

was her.

When Darlene was nineteen years old, she met Nathen, the doctor, because

of Avery’s paralysis from the accident.

Darlene and Nathen were not in the same department, and he was a few grades older than her, so she never knew that she was Nathen’s schoolmate in both high school and college.

She thought it was strange now to see her college photos falling out of the

book.

But it was someone else’s belongings, so she didn’t look much at them. She put the photos back in the book, put the book back in its place, and drew out

another book.

In the other book, several photos fell out as well, and each one had her in it. However, she never looked at the camera.

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Darlene felt more and more strange. She raised his hand and pulled out three more books in a row, and the same thing happened repeatedly.

She began to feel a little scared. The more she didn’t want to check the books, the more her hand got out of control and reached for the books.

Nearly a hundred books were placed on the shelves, and without exception, every book had her photos contained.

The earliest ones were when she was in her first year of high school. She was wearing her high school uniform.

All the photos in the books fell out and fell to the ground, scattering.

She saw countless faces of her.

Darlene’s hands began to tremble. Faced with hundreds of photos, she felt

nothing but fear and breathlessness.

Her legs gave way, and she slumped to the ground. She could never have

imagined how much effort it had taken the photographer to put together so many photos, covering almost every aspect of her life.

There were several knocks on the door, and it took her a long time to

respond. Hearing the knob turn, she got up and scrambled to put the photos

and books back in their place.

However, there were too many of them, and she couldn’t restore them in a

short time whatsoever.

She did not even dare to look back. When she heard footsteps coming inside

the room and went behind her, she only buried her head in picking up the

books and photos on the ground. Her face was pale, and her breathing

became heavy.

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The footsteps stopped beside her, and Nathen’s voice rang out. He said, “It’s

fine. Let me.”

Darlene’s hands were full of sweat. She kept lowering her head and picking

up the things. “I… I’m sorry. I was just looking for something to read, and I

knocked the shelves over.”

Nathen’s gaze fell on her face. “It doesn’t matter. You didn’t get hurt, did Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

you?”

“No.” She shook her head, holding a book in her hand. Both her hands were shaking a lot.

Nathen picked up a photo and seemed to have just remembered something. “Why are these still here? These pictures were taken by someone in your class. I think she was probably practicing photography back then. What was her name again?

“When you dropped out of college early, she couldn’t get in touch with you,

so she packaged them up and gave them to me to give to you. I forgot about

them later.”

He unhurriedly picked up the books, put them back, and then sorted out the

photos. “Don’t think too much. I left the place for Leana when I went to

Baltimore, and I think she probably used those photos as bookmarks. Now

that you see them, you may take them away.”

Darlene finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked up with some doubts.

Nathen smiled awkwardly and added, “Isn’t it strange that so many photos fell out of those books? Don’t worry. I’m not some weird man. It’s your classmate who took the photos. The girl who studied photography… Her

name is Elisa…”

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He sounded so sincere. Darlene said, “Elisa Emmy.”

Nathen nodded. “Ah, that’s right. Elisa. I almost forgot all about it. Let alone

you, even I was startled when I saw so many photos on the ground. Elisa was so obsessed with taking photos, right?”

He picked up all the photos, got up, and put them in a paper bag. “When you find a place to stay, you can take these away. After all, they are a token of your classmate.”

Darlene got up a little awkwardly. “She liked to take photos indeed. She took

photos of everything. Thank you, Dr. Elicott.”

Nathen put the paper bag on the coffee table. “It’s fine. Why don’t you go eat while I clean this up? Loretta is downstairs. The food is ready.”

Darlene figured that she did think too much, and she wasn’t that uneasy

anymore. She immediately nodded and turned back to go out.

Nathen raised his hands to sort up the books on the shelves and waited for

Darlene to go downstairs. When her footsteps faded away, he took out his

phone and sent a message.

“Darlene has a high school classmate named Elisa Emmy. Get her contact

information. I want to have some coffee with her.”

The other side quickly replied: “OK, Mr. Elicott.”

Nathen put away his phone and walked to the coffee table.

He took out a stack of photos from the paper bag, looked at them carefully,

picked a few, and put the rest back.

He then turned around, left the bedroom, went to the study, and locked the

photos in the safe. After that, he went downstairs and ate with Darlene,

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looking normal.

It was inconvenient for Darlene to not have a phone. After dinner, Nathen

drove her to the mall to buy a phone and looked around for a suitable place.

It was a holiday, and there were many people in the mall.

After walking around and browsing for a while, Darlene felt uncomfortable in her heart. The pain was familiar.

She asked Nathen to wait for her and said that she wanted to go to the

bathroom.

When she was walking to the bathroom, she passed a man.

A familiar aura approached, and she felt more and more uneasy rapidly. When she looked sideways hastily, she saw the side profile of Avery, who was on the phone.