When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 38

Chapter 38



Vinson dropped his apartment address, and I punched it into my GPS.

The ride was in silence except for the voice of the navigation. Neither of us spoke a word.

It was too embarrassing, and I didn't even know how to bring it up.

When we pulled up to his apartment building, he finally turned to look at me. "Melanie, what's going on between you and Clyde? I've been abroad these past few years. All I knew was that you two got hitched."

I stared back at him, at a loss for words.

What could I say? Could I tell him Clyde has been bringing home one woman after another for the past three years? And I'd had a cancer relapse and didn't know how much time I had left.

Ultimately, I shook my head. "Forget it, Vinson. I'm getting a divorce anyway. We might as well not talk about it."

I felt that way. Divorce was inevitable, and my time was precious. I didn't want to waste it on Clyde.

Vinson looked at me for a moment before pulling out his phone. "Fine, let's swap contacts. Send me your number."

him and watched

he sent me

if Clyde gives you trouble.

after Clyde, who paid me no mind, Vinson never stopped pursuing me. Everyone knew Vinson had a crush on me, but I pretended

I got with Clyde, I remembered Vinson drank a lot that day. Later, his roommate called me to check on him. I didn't go, feeling it was

needed anything, promising to be there. Only after Vinson graduated did I find

out of it, and if I ended up scratching Jade's car,

to see her when I got home, but she

cupcake that suddenly appeared on the table made me smile. It looked like Jade had come home but had to

thought of Jade and Vinson made my eyes well up a bit. It seemed I hadn't completely failed at life. Aside

last, I ate the cupcake

with a crick in my neck and shuffled off to

when my phone started blowing

filled the air. "Mel, you better check the news. Were you

message notifications nearly deafened me. I clicked on the links sent by Jade, which

of him and Kayla, but someone

Group's CEO and his wife had got caught with their lovers at the police station, Clyde was suspected of

being pretty sensible. They analyzed the situation and clarified that Clyde

few were just causing

Look how skinny

her toy boy. Guess there's no