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

paused, her voice catching slightly. “He stood there holding the fried chicken, calling out to his son, ‘Ryan, I bought you an extra piece today. Have all you

trembled, but she pressed on. “That’s when Ethan’s car lost control and sped toward them.”

Her eyes

a moment, she continued, her tone heavy with sorrow. “Ryan was only a few hundred feet away. He saw his father get

landed, blood spreading rapidly from the back of his head. And in his hand, he still

thing Ryan’s

In the corridor outside the hospital room, the two faced each other silently, the

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

it were you, could you move past your father’s

said nothing, his usual sharp retorts absent.

about strength versus weakness. Fine, I’ll give you that. They are weak, but they

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everything. Can you

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had been drained. He reached out as if to hold her hand but let

only see the tears of the woman you love. Do you