A Wound that Never Heals

Chapter 224 I'll Take You Home

Darlene tried her best to sit up from the ground. She was trembling. She moved backward until her back was

against the wall by the door.

Darlene's face was full of fear, and her body became numb. She could hardly feel the pain in her heart.

Darlene shook her head. The cold sweat soaked her back. "My heart donor is a cancer patient. Dr. Elicott was just

here to keep me company because I was having a heart transplant. You must've been mistaken..."

Leana interrupted her, "He said that you didn't know it. He asked me to keep it from you and not to blame you.

"But Ms. Garcia, you already know that my brother gave his heart to you. He has died for you. Ms. Garcia, tell me.

How can I not resent you? How can I not tell you the truth?"

Large beads of sweat began to drip down Darlene's forehead. She had a booming sensation in her ears, and she

could hear her heartbeats clearly.

The more resistant she was, the clearer the heartbeats became.

The sound was extremely terrifying. It was like a sharp voice asking her, "Darlene, you were dying. The person who

should die was you. Why did you take someone else's life?

"Darlene, his heart is in your chest. You can feel it day and night.

"In the dead of night, when it is quiet, you can hear it beating clearly. How can you take a healthy person's life and

continue to live in peace?

"Darlene, Nathen didn't do anything wrong. Your sufferings have nothing to do with him. How can you take his life?"

Darlene began to tremble. She struggled to raise her hands and cover her ears tightly, trying to block the sound in

her ears.

But it was useless. The more tightly Darlene covered her ears, the louder the sound became.

Darlene put forth her strength to cover her ears with her fingertips scratching her scalp. She felt that she was

about to suffocate.

Darlene had lost control. Her face was covered in tears. And all she felt was overwhelming fear. She opened her

mouth, but she couldn't make a sound.

Leana looked at Darlene. She also shed tears. Leana was over thirty years old. She couldn't remember when the

last time she cried was.

Leana's voice was filled with despair. "Darlene, I hate you. I shouldn't have let Grandpa take Nathen to the Gallard

family's banquet back then.

"I wish he never got to know you. Nathen is my beloved brother. I'm proud of him. He is so outstanding. He is the

best doctor. He can manage the company in place of Grandpa.

"But everything was ruined due to you. He is gone."

Leana reached out and grabbed Darlene's arm. Plop! Leana knelt in front of her and burst into tears.

"Ms. Garcia, he is my only brother and my grandfather's only grandson.

"My grandfather will be over eighty years old when I get married. He was counting on Nathen to take care of him in

his later years because my parents had died. How am my grandfather supposed to bear the grief?"

Darlene's face was pale. Her voice was hoarse and weak. "You are mistaken. Dr. Elicott didn't die.

"I don't want anyone to donate his heart to me. I don't want that cancer patient's heart either. I will find Dr. Elicott

and ask him to go home with you. I won't see him anymore. I won't call him."

Please don't let me face that kind of result. Don't let me live another person's life.

I'm not worthy of that. Nobody should die for me. I'm not afraid of death. I can't let someone else die for me.

If this heart is really Nathen's, I should not die. But how am I supposed to live with his heart?

Darlene's voice was trembling. "Ms. Elicott, Dr. Elicott didn't die. It can't be his heart. Dr. Elicott must have gone out

for something. Called him. Go and find him. You made a mistake, really."

Leana began to lose control. Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared at Darlene's chest. Suddenly, Leana reached

out.

"Give it to me. Give it back to my brother. How can you ask me to calm down? I can't calm down. I don't want to

calm down. I want to take my brother home."

Avery, Dakota, and Lucian rushed over. When Avery saw this, he quickly walked forward to stop Leana.

Avery was too anxious. When he saw Leana reach out her hand to Darlene, Avery pushed Leana away. But he

pushed too hard. Leana lost her balance and fell to the ground.

Darlene stretched out her trembling hand to help Leana up. "I'm sorry. I really didn't know that. He wouldn't have

died for me. It must be a misunderstanding. We should look for him."

Leana got up. She was out of her mind, and her face was full of hatred.

Leana stared at Avery and shouted at the top of her lungs, "You love her, don't you? You said that you could die for

her, didn't you? Avery, I wish you were the dead one. Why didn't you die and give your heart to Darlene?"

Leana then looked at Dakota and Lucian, "Isn't she your long-lost daughter?

There are so many people in the Swale family. Anyone of you could have donated your heart to her. What did it

have to do with my brother? Why did my brother die?"

Dakota knew that no one could ask Leana to calm down at this time, but she still tried to comfort Leana. "Ms.

Elicott, please..."

Leana's eyes were red, and she interrupted Dakota, "Get lost. Get lost! I can't calm down. You couldn't ask me to

calm down unless you had also donated your heart. Would you donate your heart? Leave me alone!"

Martin also arrived.

He stood there. His old face was filled with sorrow. He watched silently. After a long while, he ordered the

bodyguard beside him to take Leana away.

Leana looked at the familiar bodyguard who was approaching and then looked at Martin, who was at the end of the

corridor. She cried miserably, "Grandpa, Nathen has..."

Martin said in a hoarse voice, "Let's go. You can't change it even if you kill her now. You can't get him back even if

you take out the heart?"

Leana kept crying. "I don't care. It's my brother's heart. No one can take it away. I want to take it home."

Before Leana finished her words, the bodyguard beside her hit her neck.

Leana, who had been crying and shouting, suddenly fainted.

The bodyguard took Leana away. The chaos finally ended. Darlene felt there was some blood in her throat.

She coughed violently for a while and spat out a mouthful of blood that was mixed with sour fluid. She blacked out

and fell like a leaf.

Avery quickly reached out to catch her. But someone else went forward from behind and caught Darlene before

she fell to the ground.

"I will take you home. I won't let anything happen to you."