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.

she realized she had forgotten her phone charger. She changed and went to Alex’s room, finding the door wide open. She knocked,

and lighter on his nightstand. As she approached the bed, the noticed a slight bulge under Alex’s

bed and lifted the blanket. A silicone doll, dressed in her clothes, stared back at her. She instinctively

from behind her and Ellie screamed, colliding with

untied white bathrobe, caught Ellie in his arms. “What’s wrong?” he asked.

and stepped back. Her eyes

Ellie shrieked, covering her

covered Ellie’s mouth to stop her.

hand away. Seeing the silicone doll on the bed wearing her clothes and Alex in only a bathrobe with the belt untied, Ellie screamed again and scrambled out of Alex’s room.

and the doll lying on the bed in a spread–eagle position. He chased

Alex grabbed Ellie’s hand while tying his bathrobe belt with the other. “It’s not what you

mean to lift your blanket. I came to borrow a phone charger.” Ellie pushed Alex away like she’d seen a ghost, running along the wall toward her room.

the wall, and didn’t let her run away. “Calm down and listen to my explanation”

my clothes. That doll can’t

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