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.

his mouth

the garden, at the hole he had once blocked

scalpel, one day she could very

from morning to afternoon, and from afternoon

body numb, Alex took out his phone and opened Ellie’s chat window.

a long hesitation, he sent

at home cooking. When her phone lit up,

Alex’s message, she stood frozen

the audacity to ask

a moment of contemplation, Ellie typed out a message and sent it.

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you think I lack?]

Ellie gritted her teeth, stomped her foot, and decided to order Alex a

you so

head suddenly popped over, almost making Ellie drop her phone

the living room and said, “I need to talk to Aaron. Where

bedroom. “Aaron’s in

words were fully spoken, Diana had already left

in the original small study; even after clearing it out, it could barely fit a twin–size bed and a desk.