Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 594

At 10 a.m., at the Thompson residence, West Suburb No. 7, Nalani arrived with Jared Mosley.

“I saw the news last night, and I just couldn’t sleep all night. Haley really hid things well!” Nalani said, clearly satisfied at the thought of how Haley ended.

Ellie was sitting with them, chatting on the couch, while the kids were in front of the floor–to–ceiling windows, building with Legos.

“She brought it on herself,” Ellie said calmly. “No sympathy for her.” Haley’s downfall was her own doing, and Ellie didn’t feel bad about it.

“Let’s stop talking about that woman,” Whitney quickly cut in and changed the subject. “Since Ellie is free, how about we have dinner together tonight? Nalani, call Layton and let him join us.”

“I’m not calling him,” Nalani said, her face darkening at the mention of Layton.

Whitney’s expression turned serious. “Did you two fight?”

Nalani glanced at Ellie, hesitating before speaking. “Ever since Alex came back, Layton hasn’t had a peaceful day. He’s always going out in the middle of the night, sometimes not coming back until morning.”

looks with Whitney and

together. If they want to go out for drinks, you should just let it

wasn’t home, Layton took the twins to see Alex. Alex’s cat scratched the younger girl

look, the older girl cried too. It drove me crazy!”

Sometimes I wonder if I’m his partner or

Ellie were both

Whitney said, sighing as she tried to calm her niece down, “Invite Layton for dinner

everyone knew they were close. Considering Alex had just gotten out of prison after five years, their connection made sense to Whitney.

want to trouble anyone. “Don’t bother. Let’s bring the kids and go to the Earl Hotel for dinner tonight. I’ll have everything set up ahead of time, and we can just go

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CEO’s office at the Warren Group,

on the desk, “Mr. Warren, several vice presidents are playing both sides,

smile, “What

I think we’ve gotten off track here,” he politely reminded, keeping

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