Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 397

“Alex, what are you doing?” Ellie asked in shock and fear, carrying her suitcase and retreating to the door of the cloakroom

“Are you hungry?” Alex asked, retracting his hand in disappointment as he failed to embrace Ellie.

Ellie put down her suitcase and walked over to push Alex towards the door. Im going to take a shower. You go out now!

Alex was pushed back by Ellic, but he couldn’t help but reach out and hook her fingers. He said with a gentle voice, Ellie, we’re already together. We’ve done more intimate things. Don’t always distance yourself from me

“Bang!” Alex was pushed out by Ellie and the door was locked.

Alex stared at the closed door and spun around in a hurry. It took him a lot of effort to get Ellie back from the Thomzyn family, but Ellie had been on the defensive.

Ellie leaned against the door, her fingers twisting nervously around the hand that Alex had just held. Her heart pounded in her chest. She locked the bedroom door and hid in the closet.

shower when she realized she had forgotten her phone charger. She changed and went to Alex’s room, finding the door wide open. She knocked, but no one answered. Hesitantly,

Alex’s habits. He always kept a spare charger and lighter on his nightstand. As she approached the bed, the noticed a slight bulge under Alex’s covers.

doll, dressed in her clothes, stared back at her. She instinctively pulled the blanket back over

gasp came from behind her and Ellie screamed, colliding with Alex, who

bathrobe, caught

Ellie back to her senses. She broke free from Alex’s grasp and stepped back.

shrieked, covering her face with her

covered Ellie’s mouth to stop her.

the bed wearing her clothes and Alex in only

Alex saw the blanket on the bed thrown open and the doll lying on the bed in a spread–eagle position.

hand while tying his bathrobe belt with the

I came to borrow a phone charger.” Ellie pushed Alex away like she’d seen a

against the wall, and didn’t let her run away.

to explain. You took off my clothes. That doll can’t wear my

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