Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 256

In the suite, a loud slap rang out. Haley was struck hard by her father, the force of the blow leaving her dizzy and disoriented, her vision swimming.

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Evelyn quickly stepped in front of Haley, confronting her husband. “Haley has been bullied like this, and you’re still able to hit her? How can you do this?”

“Idiot,” Logan growled. “You know full well that necklace has something to do with Ellie, and yet you still dared to say it in front of her. Where’s your brain?”

Haley had already lost count of how many times she’d been slapped that night.

Her face was so swollen and bruised it couldn’t even be described as pitiful, and her sobs were even more terrifying to hear. “I’ve thrown that necklace away!

“No one except me and Alex has ever seen it. No matter how much Ellie doubts it, she can’t catch me on anything.”

t your home. With your face like this, how are you going to face

“Enough, don’t say any more,” Evelyn cut in. “This isn’t your anyone? Let’s get you to the hospital first.”

As the first light of dawn crept in, at the Warren

Ellie sat across from them, clearly unsettled.

Todd and Nancy sat on the couch,

Ellie, and finally sat down beside

parents, then

walked in, glanced at his 2

side, creating some distance

gaze darkening as he looked at the space between

spoke seriously. “Alex, when you

it was Nolan who saved you. Why are you now saying it

you made her infertile?”

continued, “Also, why did

toward Ellie, his ion

before finally speaking. “When I was kidnapped, I overheard the kidnappers on the phone saying the Warren family had called the police and they

was saved by a girl. Not only did she save me, but at a critical moment, she blocked

and was disoriented. I ripped the necklace off my neck and gave it to her,

woke up, I was in a

me to the hospital and called the police was Nolan, but there

face darkened. “Why didn’t you say anything earlier?”

gaze cloudy. “Because I made a promise to that girl, to go back and find her. I thought I could do

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