Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 586

Late at night, in the long alley behind the bar.

After taking down a few thugs, Diana was eventually overpowered and knocked to the ground by a small, stocky middle- aged man.

The short and slender man dismissed his subordinates and slowly approached Diana. Like a predator savoring its prey, he watched as blood steadily dripped from the corner of her mouth.

Seeing her struggle to push herself up with her hands, he laughed cruelly. “Ms. Grant, don’t waste your strength. There’s no way you’re leaving here alive tonight.”

Diana was almost certain these people were working with Quinlee. When she saw him take the short dagger handed to him by one of his men, she knew she had no strength left to resist.

Aaron always said that her reckless and prideful nature would get her into serious trouble someday.

In all the years she’d known Aaron, he’d never stopped nagging her. Because of her stubbornness and mischief, they had been apart for five whole years.

She thought, ‘This time, I didn’t listen to him again. If I die, I deserve it.‘

Just as she closed her eyes, there was an explosive noise.

When Diana opened her eyes again, the short, middle–aged man who had been holding the dagger was now on the ground, writhing in pain.

other attackers to retreat swiftly. As they fled, Diana tried

and saw Diana lying motionless on the ground. She opened her mouth to call out to him, but the blood gushing from her throat swallowed every

he said, his voice shaky. He picked her up and sprinted towards the

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the hallway outside the emergency room at Bondie Private Hospital was packed with dozens of people.

in there. Diana will be fine,” Ellie said, her heart pounding as

could have hurt her this badly?” Lacey asked, dressed in thin loungewear, her hair

sat on a bench with other Grant family elders, including

he had with Diana that night to

while speaking to Declan, his eyes were fixed on the light above the surgery room door. “When I called her, she’d already

but I can

almost exclaimed in

“Yes,

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up, “Winnie, if Quinlee really did this to my sister, don’t blame me. I won’t let that woman