Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 582

The day before Thanksgiving, Jaslands had just seen rain. Alex rarely visited the Warren Manor, but this time was an exception.

Entering the living room, he saw his parents‘ solitary figures discussing plans to visit Carlos grave tomorrow. Changing into his house slippers, he walked into the central living room.

Todd noticed his son and sighed without saying a word.

Nancy shot Alex a glare and spoke in a sarcastic tone, “Your father’s cat is almost out of cat food.”

Alex sat on the sofa, petting the cat. After a brief moment of hesitation, he said, “Mom, can you make some savory pastries for tomorrow?”

“There’s no one to eat them. Why bring that up all of a sudden?” Mentioning the pastries caused Nancy’s expression to change immediately.

In the past, her eldest son Orion loved her savory pastries. After he passed away, Ellie had come into their lives and also loved them.

But now, with one gone and the other estranged from the Warren family, even though she wanted to make them, there was no one left to enjoy them.

“Mom, I want to eat them,” Alex suddenly said.

astonished. “You usually hate desserts. What’s gotten

to hide his emotions, Alex repeated, “Mom, I

at

more,” Alex reminded her. Seeing her skeptical look, he mumbled a half–hearted explanation, “I want to take a

workday, Ellie used the excuse of doing rounds to

stationed Linda in the lounge area outside to keep watch while she went in to work with Orion on retrieving classified documents.

Whenever you want to pick this up again, just call me,” Ellie said, saving the files onto a USB drive and

hadn’t expected the classified files Orion referred to were a set of medical data, specifically a compound designed to counteract addiction to most

could be

this drug had been targeted by an international drug cartel. Orion had been tasked with bringing the researcher

data had been stolen at one point. Under extreme circumstances, Orion managed to memorize all the data and store it

Ellie left the room, only

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on coming in, and