Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 337

Layton plopped down in the chair across from Alex, pointing at the bandaged right hand.

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Alex’s already dark expression tightened as he looked at Layton. Did the Mosley family go bankrupt? Why are you so free to hang around?”

Leaning back against the chair, Layton casually crossed his left leg over his right. “With a mouth like that, how come Ellie didn’t cut your tongue out?”

Alex took the utensils handed over by Evan, and gave Layton a fierce glare.

Layton said, “Alex, listen to me as a friend, don’t go

too

far.”

Layton continued, “Everyone has their limits. Since Ellie came back from interning in Jinerity, you know what kind of life she’s been through. Now her father is gone, and she’s discovered she can’t have kids. She’s set on ending things with you. If you keep pushing her, she might go mad.”

The atmosphere in the dining room was tense. Alex’s deep gaze fixed on Layton, dark and brooding.

“If today you’re forcing her to come at you with a scalpel, one day she could very well turn that scalpel on herself. By then, it’ll be too late for regrets.”

***

After Layton left, Alex dragged his tired body upstairs.

In Ellie’s former room, Alex stood quietly on the balcony.

a cigarette in his mouth but

looked down at the northwest corner of the garden, at the hole he had once

head, Layton’s words echoed, “If today you’re forcing her to come at you with a scalpel, one day she could very well turn that scalpel on herself. By then, it’ll be too late

there from morning to afternoon, and from

his

hesitation, he sent

cooking. When her phone lit up, she wiped

she stood frozen for a moment.

audacity to

a message and sent it.

almost instantly. [Anything from you, no

play games. Just

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do you think I lack?]

teeth, stomped her foot, and decided to order Alex a big one online.

so

making Ellie drop her phone into the

the living room and said, “I need

small bedroom. “Aaron’s in his

the words were fully spoken, Diana had already left the kitchen.

even after clearing it out, it could barely fit