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 into

gaze to hide his emotions, Alex repeated,

softened at the sight of her lonely, grown–up

Seeing her skeptical look, he mumbled a half–hearted explanation,

the end of the workday, Ellie used the excuse of doing rounds to

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

up again, just call me,” Ellie said, saving the

medical data, specifically a compound

addicts could be freed from their addictions and

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

Orion managed to memorize all the data and store it in his mind, eventually

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Chapter 582

Warren insisted on coming in, and I couldn’t stop him, Linda said, shrugging