Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 224

Ten minutes later, Ellie led Alex to a different floor of the hospital.

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She stopped at the first room on the corridor, gesturing for him to look inside. Then she moved to the next, and the next, guiding him from one room to another until they reached the last one.

Through the window of the final room, they saw a teenage boy wearing a school uniform. His arm was in a sling, and he was standing by the hospital bed, massaging his mother’s arm with his free hand.

Behind him, on a small cot, lay an array of textbooks and school supplies.

Ellie turned her head slightly to look at Alex, her voice calm but pointed. “These are the victims of that car accident. Three of them didn’t even get the chance to say goodbye before they were gone.”

Ellie looked at Alex, her voice cold and steady. “It didn’t have to be this bad. These people didn’t have to suffer such severe injuries.

“One of them might have even survived. But Ethan fled the scene, driving recklessly and hitting them repeatedly without a shred of concern for their lives…”

Alex stared at the boy in the hospital room, his expression frozen in shock. Ellie’s tone remained calm, though her eyes betrayed her pain. “That boy’s name is Ryan.

the accident, he was coming back from evening classes to help his parents pack up their stall. His dad, proud of Ryan for ranking first in his monthly exams, went next door to buy

to his son, ‘Ryan, I

she pressed on. “That’s when Ethan’s car lost control and sped

Her eyes

her tone heavy with sorrow. “Ryan was only a few hundred feet away. He saw his father get hit, watched him fly through the air,

the back of his head. And in his hand, he still clutched Ryan’s favorite fried

Ryan’s father ever said to him.”

the hospital room, the two

His Adam’s apple bobbed, and his lips remained tightly shut. He couldn’t bring himself to say

silence. “I heard Ryan is taking the SAT next year. Tell me; if it were you, could you move past your father’s death and your mother’s

his usual sharp retorts

I’ll give you that. They are weak, but they were living their lives without hurting anyone. Is this what you call fair?

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you use money to bring his father

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drained. He reached out as if to hold her hand but let it fall back to his side, unable to

“You only see the tears of the woman you love. Do you have any idea how devastating and hopeless