Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

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Joanna arrived with her two children, showing no tears or tantrums. With the money she received for her husband’s death, she completely paid back the Warren family for their past kindness to her children.

She did not talk to anyone about the harsh words Haley threw at her, nor did she ask her daughter about her relationship with Alex. In front of the Warren family, she kept her silence.

She was determined to protect her children’s dignity. Ellie and Aaron also showed no signs of distress; they did everything their mother asked.

Carlos did not try to stop them. Nancy and Todd, feeling helpless, wanted to give the shares they had planned for Ellie as compensation, but Joanna stubbornly refused to accept them and told Ellie not to take them.

As a result, the connection between the two families, which had lasted more than a decade, was finally cut.

edge of Ellie’s bed, his eyes red and swollen, staying that way for several hours.

bed, a leftover from when Ellie first came to

washed many times, was slightly flattened because Ellie pressed it as she slept. Struggling, Alex bent down to

he would trace Ellie’s features with his fingertip while she

set of cosmetics sat neatly arranged items he had secretly placed there days earlier while she was out. Afraid she might refuse to use them, he had even taken the packing off and opened

cream over the

in her vase with red roses. When he first added them, they were just buds; now,

wouldn’t think those roses are for you, would you?”

“Weed suits you.”

he had left so

feel trapped. He pressed his forehead against the wall of Ellie’s room and struck the wall with his fists in a desperate attempt to ease his

from Whitney, Joanna sat on the bed, while Ellie and

great strength, refusing to cry. “I’ll talk

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