Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 90

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Looking at the date and words above, Alex easily recalled the memory–this drawing was from the time when it was raining. and Ellie fell in the garden. He had lifted her with one hand and tossed her into the outdoor pool, telling her to wash off before coming back up.

He picked up another one, which was from when he had been tutoring Ellie in math, and he fell asleep at her desk with her clothes over his head.

Then he picked up another photo and remembered the time he took her out. She had got tired but hadn’t said anything, so he ended up carrying her all the way home?

Then there was a third picture that brought back the memory of when she left for college in Jinerity. He playfully tugged on her ear, teasing her for being ungrateful

Alex didn’t expect that Ellie would have recorded every little memory between them in the Warren Mañor over the years in this way. Suddenly, he thought of something and frantically searched through the pile of drawings.

He pulled out that picture from the stack, the one torn in half and unfinished. The one where his face wasn’t drawn, with the bottom left corner smudged and the date in the top right corner July 6th

remembered that day. It was when he went to find Ellie at the hospital to ask

was what she had said when she first turned him down.

won’t bother everyone at home anymore That was

home.

back

was wrong. That was outside the Earl Hotel late at night and for the first time, he noticed that her apologizing eyes

her in the rain to pick up Haley, she had sneered at him in the hospital after falling through the sewer grate.

remains the same. You all have treated me well, but you’re not my family” That was what she shouted at him during their fight when he tried to make

had the choice, I’d rather starve than join the Warren family That was at Haley’s birthday party, when he threw away the engagement ring Aaron had given Haley. It was the first time Ellie admitted she

abroad, as far away as possible. That was when he went to the hospital to fulfill the promise he had made to

into the living room with a piece of paper, found a pen, and started sketching the messy

but for someone like you, a weed seems just right. That was what he had said to Ellie while he was pursuing Haley. He

if a pen had suddenly pierced straight into Alex’s heart, giving him an unexpected, dull pain deep inside. He was an adult now, and he knew

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