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 seen? Why would I steal your things?”

kept her gaze fixed on Haley, analyzing her

voice. “You, some poor country girl, begged me to take it. I didn’t want it then, and

her tone indifferent. “No need to get worked up, I was

in shock, watching the

all her energy had drained away in that instant. She leaned weakly against

was a men’s style. But when she left later, she suddenly thought it looked special and

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

*****

Alex was discharged from the hospital before his

came back from work, Nancy caught her at the stairwell. “Ellie, that bastard somehow pissed off the family doctor and

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

saw the door slightly

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