When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 71

Chapter 71



Eliana did indeed show up at Patterson Group the very next day, insisting that I be the one to handle her project, or she would walk away from the collaboration.

I convened a meeting immediately, bringing Jade along to the conference room.

Eliana's mood seemed to brighten a bit at the sight of us, but then she quickly grew frustrated again.

"Melanie, that Kayla, can you handle her already?"

"She's just so annoying. Can't Clyde see through her? Is he blind?"

That's when I learned that Kayla had tried to suck up to Eliana and ended up getting a tongue-lashing for her efforts.

But to my surprise, Kayla cried and then turned around to blame Eliana.

"Is Clyde out of his mind? Why did I ever fall for him? Was I blind?"

"Really? Why did you fall for him back then?"

"Because he was really something back in the day, and pretty handsome to boot."

I replied without much emotion.

Eliana was taken aback by my response, mainly because I was stating the obvious.

Back then, Clyde was always a source of positivity, lighting up every room he entered with his energy. But now...

I pulled out some files, "Jade will be in charge this time, with me assisting on the design side."

Eliana looked like she wanted to say something, but after glancing at Jade, she held her tongue.

shirking. I didn't mention it at dinner yesterday, but I've had a

was planning on leaving eventually. It was time

meeting went smoothly, and we

my office, I started investigating the data

with a virus, which had spread

my computer contained the most critical files, the loss was

wait was the

the security department first, wanting to check the surveillance

person there looked uneasy, "Ms. Crawford, I'm sorry, but there was a system upgrade, and a lot of the

upgrade? Why

had

come by

Kayla and Clyde's affair, so no one questioned it, and

system was

the footage from several days had been erased, making it nearly impossible

ton

to my office, fearing that the

had my suspicions, notably Paul's sudden disappearance

friendly with Kayla. Could he have

had seen him mixing whiskey and beer that day;

mulling this over, Larry from Design Department timidly knocked on

"Come in."

don't be mad. Dock

face immediately set off alarm

at work. Sure, he was a bit playful and occasionally slacked

nodded slightly,

video file, explaining, "Melanie, I'm so sorry. I was upgrading my game,

somehow, the

Rel

activated. But don't worry, I left my laptop