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.”

after dinner, take Ellie to the hospital for her shift,” Joanna said, unable to stomach such grim details

I’ll take Ellie

faces. She said, “Mom, Jason, Whitney, I’m fine now. I can drive myself to and from work. Aaron doesn’t need to keep picking me up and dropping

Even on weekends, Joanna wouldn’t feel at ease unless Aaron was the one picking her up

But she was an independent adult. She couldn’t

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

can relax now,” Ellie said after stepping out of her car and video calling Aaron. As she chatted with him, she

a late–night snack. Ellie hung up the phone and noticed the sudden change in Diana’s expression! Diana shouted, “Who

Diana tossed something over her

around. Not too far away,

stood rooted to the spot, every hair on her body standing on end. She had been followed, and she hadn’t noticed at all.

arm, her palm

a fishing hat, he seemed pretty

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

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