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.

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 his studies. I always felt he had a unique vibe,

back to the family. Unfortunately, his grandmother was battling a severe heart condition, and he was busy taking care of his grandmother in the hospital and working in

who was also secretly fighting cancer. She wanted to spare

my mother's hand in tears. "Mom, Clyde won't despise me. He loves me so much. He won't break up with me because I have

mother shook her head painfully, her eyes filled with sorrow. "Mel, Clyde's grandmother is critically sick, and our family is in

Hold

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 good guy. I also know you love him, but I don't want you two to

off now, how about

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

then and never thought I would die. I had cried my heart out for days. Seeing the

grandmother's medical expenses. He wouldn't accept it if I

as ever,

for days, leaving when rumors of me moving on with

chance encounter at the hospital connected him with his biological grandfather, Merritt, needing a bone marrow transplant. That event saved