Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 275

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In the dead of night, Ellie sat on a stool, leaning against Harold’s bedside. She cradled the new leather jacket she had bought for her dad.

She put the jacket on him, but Harold insisted on saving it for the Christmas. She had promised that once she and Aaron earned enough to buy a house, they would bring their parents to live in the city.

She also had said she would buy a wheelchair so Harold and Joanna could spend evenings at the square watching people dance or go to the park to play chess.

She had kept nagging that when she and Aaron weren’t home, Harold would have to take care of himself, as they didn’t want Joanna to worry.

grandchildren and that he needed to witness her and Aaron getting married and

two days had passed.

dad’s jacket, her sobs breaking like fragile

her face in the leather, her voice muffled and heavy, she cried. “Dad, weren’t you always the one who listened to Aaron? He told you he got a raise,

why couldn’t you just hold on a little longer? Now that you’re gone,

in

Layton came over and forcibly pulled

deliberately avoided Alex, waiting for Harold’s funeral to finish. Layton feared that Alex might lose

Alex a cigarette and a lighter. After you left, Haley walked into the Thompson residence. You know it but haven’t acted, which isn’t

night, Harold braved the storm to go to the station–his

Putting aside Alex’s past interactions with Ellie, this alone was reason enough for Ellie to never

asked, “If Ellie refuses to forgive you for the rest of her

few piglets below, smoking continuously. His complexion was pale, his red eyes showing either rainwater or tears,

for Harold’s burial. Though

some dear colleagues and friends. That night, everyone hardly

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