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.”

“Ellie absolutely refused to

opened a payment request. “I rounded off the cost

phone and transferred the seventy

sending Alex several photos in quick

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

you spending on Ellie, buying her bracelets

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

and placed the handkerchief, cash, and car

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

thought, Alex slammed the drawer shut and

that very moment, Ellie and Aaron returned to jaslands, back to their jobs.

the Thompson family’s holiday felt unusually bleak Sitting around 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 as they ate, she silently vowed to work hard and reclaim every ounce of their