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

that day. It was when he went to find Ellie

was what she had said when she first

at home anymore That was the first time

home.

back

was outside the Earl Hotel late at night and for the first time, he noticed that

worthless flesh and bones. That was the first time, when he had left her in the rain to pick up Haley, she had sneered at him in the

was what she shouted at him during their fight when he tried to make her move back to the Warren Manor. It was the first time she had lost her temper and

family That was at Haley’s birthday party, when he threw away the engagement ring Aaron had given Haley. It was the first time

went to the hospital to fulfill the promise he had made to her. It was the first time he saw such deep sadness and hopelessness in her

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

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

a pen had suddenly pierced straight into Alex’s heart, giving him an unexpected, dull

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