Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

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Alex turned, gazing into the distance at the greenhouse, and forced himself to ask, “When do you plan to leave?”

“I never said I was leaving.” Ellie’s soft and gentle voice came from behind. Alex spun around abruptly.

Their eyes met, and Ellie took two steps forward. Gathering her courage, she carefully reached out and embraced him.

She pressed her cheek to his chest, listening to his strong and steady heartbeat, and said, “My mom agreed.”

Alex’s crimson eyes welled up with emotion.

His mind buzzed with confusion for a moment, and all he could hear was the pounding of his own heart.

After what felt like an eternity, Alex came to his senses.

“Ellie,” he whispered. Like a madman, he lifted Ellie into his arms and spun around in circles in the garden.

His eyes were terrifyingly red. Though he was laughing, tears streamed down his face without pause.

From a distance, Barry watched his boss, who was nimbly carrying Ellie in circles around the garden, and quickly moved away to give them space.

“Alex, your leg is still injured. Put me down,” Ellie said, hearing Alex’s choked sobs and struggling to slide out of his grasp.

close, his hand resting on

forehead against hers and croaked. “Let me check. I’m not dreaming,

met hers. There were no other movements, and they were just immersed in their small world.

was eerily quiet, with only the stars in the sky as witnesses, serene and gentle.

long

at her with the gaze of a devout believer.

entire past, and you can’t be absent from my

up into Alex’s passionate

by the starry sky, with occasional chirping insects and an otherwise silent atmosphere.

holding each other’s hands

half–spoken words from Aaron and the hesitant, looks from her aunts and uncles at the Thompson residence earlier, the tenderness in Ellie’s eyes gradually turned to

many things. I don’t want to hear it from others right now; I just want to hear it

as he asked, “What do you want

just want to know if anything bad happened between us during my

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way?”

Ellie

eyes met, and the atmosphere became inexplicably heavy

as he looked

eyes again

Alex assured her.