Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 309

“Leonard, when I rejected you in college, it wasn’t because I wanted to focus on my studies. It was because I already had a crush on someone.”

Leonard frowned. “So, are you with him now?”

Ellie shook her head. “No, he passed away.”

Leonard stood there, unable to find the right words. “Then why can’t you try being with me?”

Ellie’s voice was steady but filled with sorrow. “It’s not just that. I. I can’t have children.”

Leonard froze with a mix of shock and disbelief on his face. Ellie felt a sharp pang of sadness in her heart. “Leonard, do you think you could marry a woman who can’t have kids? Even if you could accept that, what about your family?”

Leonard’s eyes softened with concern as he stepped closer to her “Ellie, with today’s medical advancements, there must be a way to cure your illness!”

Ellie couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of relief at the surprise in Leonard’s eyes. Here was a man who had quietly liked her since high school, and hearing her tell him she couldn’t have children surprised him.

could

of my health condition. Don’t waste any more time on me. There won’t

said, refusing to take the cactus from her. With that, he turned and

‘If someone truly loves you, he’ll treat everything about you with care. He’ll speak to you with kindness, invest his youth in you, and truly attend to your feelings. It’s only someone who loves you that will share

passed away… was

his gaze fixed on her.

He said,

of Ellie, looking down to meet her eyes with an intense gaze. “I know you’re angry. I drank too much last night, but

towards Alex, who instinctively flinched back from the pain. “You’re crazy whether you’re drunk or not!”

kept swinging the cactus at Alex’s face, neck, and chest. Alex yelped in pain. “Stop it!

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care!” Ellie retorted.