When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 27

Chapter 27



I used to count the minutes until he'd call. But now, the name "Clyde" flashing on my phone screen felt like a visual assault. Thinking about the handful of projects I had tethered to the company, I dragged myself back to the office.

As I walk into Clyde's office, I spot Kayla storming out, her eyes red from crying. She shot me a glare filled with resentment as she passed by. Raising an eyebrow in confusion, I stepped inside and asked, "You needed to see me?"

Momentarily distracted by my newly chopped hair, Clyde blurted out, "Why'd you cut your hair?"

Ignoring his question, I repeated, "Was there something you needed?"

"Tonight's dinner at the Patterson Mansion. You're coming with me," he said, his tone laced with reluctance.

place among the Patterson family, though he was one of them. I knew bits and pieces of his past, orphaned and raised by his grandmother. He might not have left the small village if he hadn't been so excellent in

severe heart condition, and he was busy taking care of his grandmother in the hospital and working in the company.

to leave the country and Clyde was forced upon me by my mother, who was also secretly

despise me. He loves me so much. He won't break up with me because I

grandmother is critically sick, and our family is in financial crisis. You must go abroad

Hold

of of cancer. Back then, I had no idea my mother had been diagnosed with cancer, which was why she got so desperate. "Mel, you may get the cancer, but look at our family... I know Clyde is a

"If you hold him off now, how about later? Will you

me for my cancer, but what if our children died of cancer, too? Would he hate me after learning

I didn't have the heart to ruin his hope. I was only twenty then and never thought I would die. I had cried my heart out for days. Seeing

He wouldn't accept it if I gave

as ever, Clyde waited

days, leaving when rumors of me moving on with someone else reached

with his biological grandfather, Merritt, needing a