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.”

tossed the car keys to Alex. “Ellie absolutely refused to take

payment request. “I rounded off the cost of the nutrients I bought for Ellie’s parents

own phone and transferred the seventy thousand before Layton finally settled down in satisfaction.

something, Layton said, sending Alex several photos in quick succession. Alex stared at the pictures, his eyebrows

Layton continued. “But her parents are good people; her dad just comes down hard. The last time

“If you 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 nasty, poking at people’s wounds like that?” Alex shot back.

five or six hundred bucks.

and placed the

worth millions, a promotional bracelet, i platinum tassel bracelet, and a broken red string. All of these were gifts he had given Ellie, which she didn’t want.

the drawer shut and stood up to

returned to jaslands, back

but this year, 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