A Wound that Never Heals

Chapter 236

Chapter 236 He Has Jumped Down With Her

The wind was particularly strong on the rooftop of the hospital, snow was falling, and it was freezing since it was the middle of the night. All that showered down onto Darlene together.

As for the people who rushed to the rooftop, they froze in the middle of it, not daring to go a step closer to Darlene for fear of triggering her.

There were railings around the edge of the rooftop. Darlene was sitting inside the railing with her legs dangling over the edge before everyone got there.

Hearing the sound of their hasty footsteps, Darlene turned around, only to find a lot of people showing up behind her in the dark.

The light was dim on the rooftop even with all the flashlights that the people who rushed up turned on.

Alerted by the footsteps, Darlene then stood up.

But her movements were very slow, probably because she was not in a fit state now.

After standing up straight, she put her arm on the railing, which was only at her waist height, so as to support her body a bit. Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

The wind was so strong that, the moment she leaned out of the railing, she felt like she could be blown down by the wind at any time.

His face darkening, Gustave walked forward subconsciously while calling out her name, “Darlene.”

But Darlene tightened her grip on the railing while turning to look at him.

“I’ll just stand here for a while. Don’t come over.”

Gustave’s mind went blank. The more he tried to stop her, the more difficult he found it to say the appropriate things.

And since it was so late now, the police wouldn’t be able to get here right away.

That also meant they would have to wait for all the rescue equipment to be set up for quite a while.

His eyes darkening, Gustave chose his words with great care. “Darlene, Dr. Elicott has put a lot of effort into saving your life. Do you wanna make his efforts all in vain?”

Darlene’s hair was disheveled because of the high winds, her face was pale and icy, and her eyes were dull as hell.

Then she said in a voice, indicating that she was fairly lost now, “But I didn’t ask him to save my life…’

“So what!” Gustave interrupted her right away. “Since he has saved your life, you should value it. Otherwise, Dr. Elicott would have traded his life for nothing.”

Gustave’s words worked! Darlene thought, Gustave’s right. It turns out that I can’t even decide whether to live or die!

Despite feeling even more awful now, Darlene began to have second thoughts about her decision to die.

Gustave had a point. Nathen had given.

Darlene her life. And that made Darlene somewhat no longer master of her own life.

At the thought of that, Darlene leaned against the railing feebly, during which she stumbled and therefore almost fell out of the railing.

Dakota, anxious, rushed over. But Lucian stopped her right off. “Don’t!

Joining her there will only trigger her.”

Trembling all over, her face included, Darlene showed great fear and bewilderment tinted with a hint of helplessness. Then she turned to look at Gustave.

“But it’s against my will to live for him. The Elicott family will hate my guts if I’m alive. Also, people will despise me for being selfish like that ever since.

“Most importantly, I’ll feel tortured whenever I bring to mind something that doesn’t belong to me is actually in my body.”

Raising her hand, she dived into her hair before scratching her scalp with all her strength, as if she was making a hole in her head.

By doing that, she wished she could rid all the pain and self-torture of her mind for good.

Soon, blood started to ooze out of her scalp before trickling down her cheeks.

Then a sharp pain came along. She burst into laughter while keeping shedding tears, presenting a fairly sorry sight.

Then she said, in a very low voice as if she was talking to herself, “The new heart hurts even greater than my own. one which suffered from heart failure does. I can hear it beating, and the beats echo nonstop in my ear, driving me crazy and bringing me mental exhaustion.”

After that, she paused. A gust of wind blew onto her tear-stained face, giving her a chill.

After a long time, she spoke again in a trembling voice, which, instead of sounding fearful, was full of expectations of ending everything for good.

“Mr. Walpole, I really crave death now.

I think I’ve come to a dead end, where I failed to escape no matter how hard I tried. And you know what? I don’t want to try anymore. Since he’s died, I think I might as well just join him.”

Gustave, his fist tightly clenched because her words had pulled at his heartstrings, felt extremely powerless.

He felt powerless, not being able to stay by her side and also to get close to her heart. She was dead inside, and that was something no one could help.

Then, she stepped onto the step on the edge of the rooftop with one foot while looking at the people behind her with pleading eyes. “Please! I know I owe Nathen his life. But I can’t give his heart back to him now, right? So, would you please just let me die?

“That’s all I’m asking. I don’t want to be alive anymore! Am I asking too much?”

As she said that, she put one of her feet onto the farthest step and the other in mid-air.

And since she had come to the highest and farthest step, the railing in front of her looked shorter.

If it were not for the railing, she would have fallen down by now.

The wind was strong, and the railing didn’t seem protective enough. Below her, there was a dark night and freezing fog that stretched out as far as one could see.

Gustave’s voice trembled. “Darlene, calm down. I have people investigate bit. The one that donated the heart to you might not have been Dr. Elicott. It might just be a plot.”

Right now, all Gustave could think of was to hold Darlene back, hence the lie.

But Darlene did not say anything, nor did she look back at anyone.

She knew that Gustave was lying to her since she had seen with her own eyes the heart replacement agreement with Nathen’s signature on it that day.

Nathen had agreed to give away his heart to the black market!

She even saw the pictures, in which Nathen’s body, covered with cloth, was being carried out of the sanitarium by some staff members of the black market.

Those were things presented to Darlene right after she had the heart transplant surgery.

Darlene bought it and chose not to assume otherwise.

Then she dragged both her feet onto the step, where she began to feel the inclination to fall down, especially with the wind blowing.

As she looked down, she got even more determined.

Her life had been tiring for quite a long time. Now that Nathen had died, there was only one way out, which was that she died as well.

At the thought of that, she slowly released one of her hands and then the other.

Meanwhile, the police officer, who took advantage of the darkness of the night and managed to get close to Darlene, pounced on her, wanting to grab her arm. But that turned out to be a vain attempt.

Darlene had already fallen down before the police officer could do anything.

Dakota, whose mind went black, rushed towards the edge right away despite her leg feeling weak.

As for Gustave, he rushed over with red eyes the moment he saw the police officer was taking action and ended up following Darlene’s track, with his body tumbling down the railing.

And the police officer failed to catch Gustave as well since the police officer didn’t see that coming at all.

In the police officer’s eyes, Gustave was the last person to be worried about, for he had always been sensible and knew the right thing to do. But to the officer’s surprise, Gustave jumped out of the railing just like that.