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.

parents pack up their stall. His dad, proud of Ryan for ranking first in his monthly exams, went next door to buy him some fried

to his son, ‘Ryan, I bought you an extra piece today. Have all

when Ethan’s car lost control

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, and crash onto

a sickening thud, he landed, blood spreading rapidly from the back of his head. And in his hand, he still clutched Ryan’s

thing Ryan’s

corridor outside the hospital room, the two faced each other silently, the oppressive atmosphere making it hard to

apple bobbed, and his

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 critical injuries to face the biggest exam of

nothing, his usual sharp retorts

pressed further. “You say the world is unfair, that it’s about strength versus weakness. Fine, I’ll give you that. They are weak, but they were living their lives without hurting anyone. Is this what you call

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you use money to bring his

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body sagging as if all his strength had been drained. He reached out as if to hold her hand but

woman you love. Do you have any idea