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.

explained, "Eliana, it's not that I'm shirking. I didn't mention it at dinner yesterday, but I've had a major setback with a project

I was planning on leaving eventually. It was time for Jade

difficult for us. The meeting went smoothly, and we ended

office, I started investigating the data deletion

Design Department's computers were infected with a virus, which had spread from my computer

the most critical

wait was the

the security department first, wanting to check the surveillance

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

upgrade? Why upgrade

already had my

come by with some people,

and Clyde's affair, so no one questioned it, and the staff proceeded

was

several days had been erased,

ton

deflated, I returned to my office, fearing that the investigation

notably Paul's sudden disappearance that day, which

it seemed Mack was quite friendly with Kayla. Could he have provoked me deliberately,

I had seen him mixing whiskey and beer that day; the

was mulling this over, Larry from Design Department timidly

"Come in."

I'm gonna come clean, please don't be mad. Dock my

off alarm

Sure, he was a bit playful and occasionally slacked off, but that was

nodded slightly,

explaining, "Melanie, I'm so sorry. I

somehow, the live

Rel

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