Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 286

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Over an hour later, Ellie stepped out of the taxi and stood on the sidewalk in front of her apartment, stunned as she gazed at

a tree.

The first snow of winter hadn’t arrived yet, and all the leaves had fallen, leaving only bare branches swaying in the cold wind.

Ellie gently patted the trunk of the tree. Some trees may look strong from the outside, but their insides are hollow. Onlookers waiting for spring may not realize that many of these trees have already given in to winter’s chill.

She wrapped her arms around the large tree and pressed her face against its cold, damp bark. Closing her eyes, tears streamed silently down her cheeks. Long ago, her brother had told her not to share her struggles with their parents.

They couldn’t help, and it would keep them awake at night. Yet, despite that, she felt she couldn’t ease her dad’s burden. As a child, she had been sent to the Warren family. She never got to grow old alongside her dad.

Many nights, she had sat under the apple tree in their yard with her dad, watching the moon. The moonlight stretched their shadows into different sizes.

one, while Harold’s shorter shadow reminded her

three in the morning, with gentle rain falling, Ellie mourned her recently deceased dad, weeping against the hollow tree as

sharing in her grief as if it

Layton found Alex in the

your mind.” Layton snatched

pack, realizing he had run out of

cut ties with your family and keep Ellie

into his hair as he bowed his head and held back all

If you want to make things right, the

with fear. “She might hate me, but she can never leave my sight.”

it.” Layton stared

you managed to win

Fed

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