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.

Mark’s tender reassurance left her a little dazed. Blushing, she turned and rushed away,

her own pain. ‘Aren’t

he opened the hospital room door. “You cannot enter,”

emotionally unstable right now; you can’t go in!” Ellie insisted, gripping

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

inside the room,

Linda pleaded. “Don’t be scared; you just had a bad dream. You won’t hurt me, right? The bracelet I’m wearing

herself caught in Orion’s grip, tightening around her throat. Struggling for breath, she tried to comfort him. As Orion’s grip finally loosened, she

pulled him close, allowing him to find comfort in her embrace as she steadied her own breathing. She gently patted

here, there’s nothing to fear, Orion. Those who just came in were Ellie and Mark. If you feel upset, I’ll keep them out.”

a child for quite some

came to check the marks

causing an emotional outburst. I managed to calm him down using

herself together. Listening to Ellie and Linda’s