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.

she could only imagine how repelled they

on me. There won’t be a happy ending.” She handed the cactus back to Leonard, her expression resolute.

he turned and walked away. Ellie stood at the stairwell, watching Leonard leave, feeling a complex emotion she

She thought, ‘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

“The person you said who passed away… was it me?” Alex’s voice was cold and calm, pulling Ellie back

at the stairwell, Ellie watched as Alex walked toward her, his gaze fixed on her. Ellie steadied the cactus in her hands, ready to

his emotions starting to fray. He said, “Ellie, if you want, I can become whoever you want

in front of Ellie, looking down to meet her eyes with an intense gaze. “I know you’re

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

chest. Alex yelped

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care!” Ellie retorted.