Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 244

As the sound of the door closing echoed softly, Ellie slowly opened her eyes.

She didn’t move, remaining as still as before, her gaze fixed on the door. Yet, inside her, a storm was raging.

‘What did he mean by that? Could the man I saved back then… could it actually have been him? That’s impossible, she thought.

A wave of unease surged within her, unsettling her thoughts in a way she couldn’t explain. She couldn’t let it be him.

The person she had saved could have been anyone, absolutely anyone, but it couldn’t be him. If it were him, the thought alone would break her heart.

The next morning, Ellie was dragging a suitcase to the staircase landing on the second floor when she ran into Alex again.

The words he had whispered in her room the previous night came rushing back, filling her with an inexplicable sense of dread about what the truth might hold.

Alex reached out to take the suitcase from her, but Ellie turned him down without hesitation. “I can handle it myself.” Alex stood silently at the top of the stairs, watching as Ellie struggled to carry the suitcase down.

She didn’t want to talk to him. She didn’t want to look at him. She didn’t even want his help when she clearly needed it.

Alex closed his eyes, exhaustion pressing down on him like a weight. A suffocating heaviness settled in his chest.

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A week later, Ellie returned from her business trip and found an excuse to convince Nancy to let her move into an apartment for a few days.

determined. The blonde girl she had spotted near Encounter Bar last week had to live

find that girl, she could

trace the necklace, she would uncover the identity of the person she had saved all

had to know for certain; it couldn’t

was about to leave, Alex walked

Ellie felt stunned for

she had known him, Alex had always stood out; his every outfit, accessory, and hairstyle more striking than a celebrity’s.

The black diamond earring in his left ear was gone, and his flamboyant

someone disguised themselves, the essence of

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Alex noted that Ellie’s indifference toward

the doorway to the living room, Alex didn’t budge. Ellie suitcase in

gaze lingered on the suitcase before he asked, “You just got back. Where are

overtime a lot lately. I’m going to stay at the

at her for a long moment before stepping forward to pick up her suitcase. “I’ll take you

head. “No need.”

voice was firm. “Then

there.”

Their

eyes

in a