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.”

Alex. “Ellie absolutely refused to take it

that, Layton pulled out his phone and opened a payment request. “I rounded off the cost of the nutrients I bought for

the seventy thousand before

you something, Layton said, sending Alex several photos in quick succession. Alex stared

even afford to keep a dog,” Layton continued. “But her parents are good people; her dad just comes down hard. The last time they went home, they made

on Ellie, buying her bracelets and a car? Why do you

roll of cash–around five or six hundred bucks. Layton had said it was from

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

belongings: a pink diamond necklace worth millions, a promotional bracelet, i platinum tassel bracelet, and a broken red string. All of these were gifts

by a thought, Alex slammed the drawer shut

moment, Ellie and Aaron returned to jaslands,

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