Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 479

Chapter 479

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Whitney said, “These orchids are incredibly rare and valuable. If someone who doesn’t know how to care for them gets them, they’ll only be ruined. Since that jerk gave them to you, you might as well keep them.”

Ellie nodded, not dwelling on it too much.

Whitney said, “Come on, let’s go inside and help your mom prepare dinner. You still have to work the night shift later.”

In the evening, Aaron had just come home from work, and the family gathered for dinner. “Did you guys catch the news? Haley’s father committed suicide by jumping off a building and it was all over the news!”

Ellie was visibly shocked. Haley’s father had gone through his son’s imprisonment, the bankruptcy of the Owens family, and his daughter’s death, yet he never committed suicide. Why would he suddenly do it now?

Aaron nodded calmly. “The body was discovered this morning. The police have confirmed it was a suicide. He jumped off the rooftop of an unfinished building in the suburbs.”

the hospital for her shift,”

“Got it, Mom. I’ll

faces. She said, “Mom, Jason, Whitney, I’m fine now. I can drive myself to and

been driving Ellie to and from work, no matter how late it was. Even on weekends,

everyone was looking out for her well–being and concerned about her. But she was an independent adult. She couldn’t keep

the family had to agree to let her drive herself to work. By a little after 7:30 PM, Ellie had safely parked her car in the emergency parking lot of the hospital.

of her car and video calling Aaron. As she chatted with him, she walked towards the hospital’s outpatient building,

called, waving at Ellie from the emergency lane near the building while carrying a late–night snack. Ellie hung up the

react, Diana tossed something

spun around. Not too far away, a stranger

on end. She had been followed, and she hadn’t noticed at all.

Diana’s arm, her palm slick with

mask and a fishing hat, he seemed pretty young. Probably thought you were gorgeous and

were working the night shift tonight, and I went out of my way to get you your favorite

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