Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 72

“After all that shouting, you guys can just make up?” Haley asked, raising an eyebrow.

Alex shot back, “What, do you stop being family just because you had a fight with your parents?”

Layton had no time to mediate between them. He grabbed his car keys and went after Ellie.

Two days later, at the Warren Manor on the second floor, in the living room outside Alex’s bedroom, Layton tossed. something to Alex.

“Ugh, 1

, what is this filthy thing? Alex grimaced as he let it drop onto the carpet.

Layton didn’t bother picking it up and pointed to a handkerchief that Alex had discarded. “That’s the cash for gas that Ellie’s mom gave me.”

the car keys to Alex. “Ellie absolutely

pulled out his phone and opened a payment request. “I rounded off the cost of the nutrients I bought for Ellie’s parents to seventy grand. Just scan

his own phone and transferred the seventy thousand before Layton finally

Alex several photos in quick succession. Alex stared at the pictures, his eyebrows furrowed tight.

Layton continued. “But her parents are good people; her dad just comes down hard. The last time they went home, they made Ellie and Aaron kneel outside for a whole day and night.

care so much about the money, then why are you spending on Ellie, buying her bracelets and a car? Why do you have to be so

bent down and picked up the handkerchief. It contained a roll of cash–around five or six hundred bucks. Layton had said it was from Ellie’s mom saving up

under the coffee table and placed the handkerchief, cash, and car

worth millions, a promotional bracelet, i platinum tassel bracelet, and a broken red string. All of these were gifts he had given Ellie, which

Alex slammed the

that very moment, Ellie and Aaron returned to jaslands, back

a bit of bread, the family was together, lacking turkey and smiles, only tears and sadness filled the air. When Ellie saw her proud parents, crying