Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 270

As rain poured from the sky, Harold raised his cane but was shoved down by Haley. Joanna rushed to help her husband.

Haley stood in the yard, drenched, laughing maniacally as she said to Ellie’s parents, “The reason I broke up with your son is all because of you two useless old people!”

Haley declared, “You will just drag down your son. I’ve dated Aaron for a long time. His money goes either to you for living expenses or for your medicine; he bought the cheapest ring when proposing.

“Maybe I would have stayed with Aaron without you. But no one would want to endure hardship for a lifetime with you as a burden!”

Joanna, trembling, said, “Whatever you say, we won’t believe you. We know Ellie better than anyone. If you disturb us again, I will call for help.”

Haley smirked, pointing at the new rain boots she had kicked out of the living room. “Everything Ellie has bought for you comes from her nights spent with Alex!

“If you let Ellie stay in the Warren family, she will only be Alex’s mistress. Once he grows tired of her, he’ll pass her to another rich guy; that’s how they do it in elite circles.”

instinctively raised her arm to block her head

lifted the shovel to strike again; in pain, she crawled away from the Thompson residence.

she looked back at the closed door, her face showing hard–won

parents

that night, a group came out of a house, with Alex leading the way. The door of

the backseat of the fancy car, Alex leaned back heavily against the seat, filled with emotions hidden beneath closed eyes. His hands were clenched tightly,

Nolan was a fool with no sense of direction. The actual place of his incident

day of his kidnapping and the threat of execution, records showed that Harold was indeed at work at the Nopolis Chemical Factory. Ellie had run into Alex during the abduction and helped him escape, injuring herself by

vulnerable, Ellie had cried. Alex couldn’t see the exit clearly, so he pulled off the necklace from his neck, coaxing Ellie to take

wastewater; Harold, trying to save her, had suffered a steel

together, and all the evidence

a strong middle–aged man to a disabled cripple, cared for by an uneducated woman raising two

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