Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 99

Chapter 99

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The little garden under the apartment building was dark and cold in the dead of winter, but it couldn’t compare to the chill

in Ellie’s heart.

Alex’s defense of Haley had gotten to a point where he couldn’t tell right from wrong. Ellie didn’t want to get caught in an endless loop of self–justification and had no desire to explain anything more.

The two stared at each other in silence. Alex took off his coat, intending to put it on Ellie. Without thinking, she took a step back. His hand, meant to drape the coat over her, missed as he looked at her with eyes growing darker.

Ellie suppressed the feeling of injustice and murmured, “I thought Haley would be my friend for life. She never cared that I was just a poor girl from the countryside and wanted to be friends anyway. I even gave her the only thing I had–a man’s necklace and she wouldn’t accept it.”

Alex frowned, stepping closer to Ellic. “Where did you get a man’s necklace from?”

Seeing Alex’s brows slowly knotting, Ellie looked away, her eyes reddening. That necklace was given to her by a boy she had recklessly tried to save when she was little.

she had been unconscious for a week after saving that boy, and when she woke up, he was nowhere to be found. Later,

her, her father wouldn’t have lost a leg and been forced to live on constant medication. If it weren’t for her, the Thompson family wouldn’t have

it,” Ellie said weakly, brushing

good to you back then, just

She lifted the back of her hand to wipe them away,

told me she liked Aaron, I was truly happy. I felt like we were really destined. Turning from long–time

as she continued, “But even though you knew Haley was my brother’s girlfriend, you forced

Aaron’s back. At that point, they hadn’t broken up yet. Do

Thompson!” Alex’s eyes turned

and embarrassing us, Ellie said. “But did you know, Haley constantly made unreasonable demands of

district attorney’s office. She forced him to give up his dreams that he had held for many years, all while

control of her emotions. “She

dad

waiting for Aaron to earn

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Chapter 99