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.

that I'm shirking. I didn't mention it at dinner yesterday, but I've had a major setback with a

time for Jade to stand on her own two

meeting went smoothly, and

office, I started investigating the data deletion

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

contained the most critical files,

wait was

first, wanting to check

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

Why

already had my

come by with some people, claiming it was

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

system was

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

ton

I returned to my office, fearing that the investigation was at a dead

Paul's sudden disappearance that day,

was quite friendly with Kayla. Could he have provoked me deliberately, then

that day; the chances of him

was mulling this over, Larry from Design Department timidly knocked on my

"Come in."

mad. Dock my pay, just don't fire

guilt-ridden face immediately set off alarm bells.

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

slightly,

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

the

Rel

But don't worry, I left