Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 572

“Mr. Warren, please show some respect to Ellie, Mark cautioned Alex, noticing the distressed look on Ellie’s face.

“The quicker you get me to Orion, the more polite I’ll be to Ellie, Alex coolly remarked, glancing at Ellie from the corner of his eye.

Seeing her face stirred something in Alex’s eyes. Without realizing it, his hand on Ellie’s shoulder relaxed.

“Wait for me in my office,” Mark said. He instructed Lacey to leave, but Lacey, overflowing with curiosity, refused to move, lingering in the hallway.

“Be a good girl and wait for me in the office,” Mark gently urged her. “I’ll be there soon, and we can enjoy a seafood buffet tonight.”

With her curiosity at its peak, Lacey asked, “Mark, is Orion really alive?”

Mark leaned down and kissed her quickly. “Just wait for me in the office,” he urged softly.

left her a little dazed.

them, astonished, momentarily forgetting her own pain. ‘Aren’t they

a more serious demeanor as he opened the hospital room door. “You cannot enter,” Linda quickly warned when she saw Ellie, Mark, Alex, and

hospital door but were blocked by Ellie and Mark. “Orion is emotionally unstable right now; you can’t

a familiar figure sat in a wheelchair, and Alex’s eyes glistened with tears. “Orion, it’s me, Alex.”

was hurled from inside the

a bad dream. You won’t hurt me, right? The

Struggling for breath, she tried to comfort

find comfort in her embrace as she steadied her own breathing. She

who just came in were Ellie and Mark. If you feel

like a child for quite some time before

check the marks on her neck and asked,

and he started recalling some painful memories, causing an emotional outburst. I managed to calm him down using headphones and some music.

sip of water to get herself together. Listening to Ellie and Linda’s conversation, Alex’s expression darkened, but he held back his earlier impulse to