Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 230

Her thick makeup couldn’t hide the redness and puffiness around her eyes. Ellie paused.

Haley’s voice dripped with venom. “Did you hear me tell Alex I wanted to break up? Are you happy about that?”

Ellie merely tugged at the corner of her lips, offering no response.

Haley, seeing Ellie’s silence, her eyes filled with malice, sneered, “Are you pleased to see Alex’s mom treat me like that?”

Ellie lifted her eyelids to glance at Haley, but she still didn’t speak.

Haley stepped closer to Ellie, her voice low enough for only the two of them to hear, gritting her teeth as she said, “You saw it earlier, didn’t you?

“Alex loves me. Even if I told him I wanted to break up, and even if his mother tries to stop him, he won’t leave me.”

Haley paused for a moment before adding, “Alex already told me. Saving Aaron was just an accident. He promised me that if anything happens to Ethan this time, he won’t let you two get away with it.”

Ellie suddenly spoke up, her voice cutting through Haley’s taunts. “Haley, remember that necklace I gave you? You didn’t want it back then, but did you steal it later?”

denied it. “I’m the daughter of the Owens family. What kind of jewelry haven’t I

gaze fixed on Haley, analyzing

growing defensive, couldn’t help but raise her voice. “You, some poor country girl, begged me to take it. I didn’t want it then,

need to get worked up, I was just asking.” The elevator doors opened, and Ellie

shock, watching the doors

away in that instant. She leaned weakly against the wall, breathing

ago, when Ellie had given her the necklace, Haley had refused it, saying it was a men’s style. But when she left later, she suddenly thought it looked special and had slipped it into her

Alex’s wife, destined for wealth and fortune,‘ she

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was discharged from the hospital before his stitches were

from work, Nancy caught her at the stairwell. “Ellie, that bastard somehow pissed off the family doctor and sent him packing. Can you change his bandages for

change Alex’s bandages for Nancy later that night. She returned to her room, got busy with her own things, and planned to see

door slightly ajar, Ellie walked in.

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