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.

a week after saving that boy, and when she woke up,

the

it,” Ellie said weakly, brushing

to argue with you. Since you said Haley was good to you back then, just apologize to her, and I’ll pretend

Alex with a self–mocking smile. Her tears accidentally slipped down as she laughed. She lifted the back

she liked Aaron, I was truly happy. I felt like we were really destined. Turning from long–time friends into sisters–in–law, isn’t that something to be

continued, “But even though you knew Haley was my brother’s girlfriend, you forced me to help you pursue her. Although I was sad, I never blamed her.

secretly went out on dates with you behind Aaron’s back.

Thompson!” Alex’s eyes turned red at the

down on Aaron and me, making us a laughing stock and embarrassing

parents went to often or intern at the district attorney’s office. She forced him to give up his dreams that he had held for many years, all while keeping things unclear

touched a sensitive spot and lost control of her emotions. “She knew my buy medicine and keep

dad

was waiting for Aaron to

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