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.

her a little dazed. Blushing,

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

elevator before adopting a more serious demeanor as he opened the hospital room door. “You cannot enter,” Linda quickly warned when she

door but were blocked by Ellie and Mark. “Orion is emotionally unstable right now; you can’t go in!” Ellie insisted, gripping Alex tightly to

and Alex’s eyes glistened with tears. “Orion, it’s

was hurled from inside the room, making the four at the doorway

bad dream. You won’t hurt me, right? The bracelet I’m wearing was made

tightening around her throat. Struggling for breath, she tried to comfort him. As

she pulled him close, allowing him to find comfort in her embrace as she steadied her own

came in were Ellie

for quite some

where Ellie came to check the marks on her neck and asked, “What just

painful memories, causing an emotional outburst. I managed to calm him down using headphones

Ellie and Linda’s conversation, Alex’s expression darkened, but he held back his earlier impulse to burst