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.

"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'm collaborating on

was planning on leaving eventually. It was time for Jade

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

my office, I started investigating the data

infected with a virus, which had spread from my computer through the

contained the most critical files, the loss

what couldn't wait was the case with

security department first, wanting to check

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

upgrade? Why

already had

come by with some people, claiming it was Clyde's

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

was indeed updated

days had been erased, making it nearly impossible

ton

fearing that the investigation was at a

Paul's sudden disappearance that day, which was

quite friendly with Kayla. Could

seen him mixing whiskey and beer that day; the chances of him being sober were

over, Larry from Design Department timidly knocked on my

"Come in."

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

immediately set off alarm

a bit playful and occasionally slacked off, but that

nodded slightly,

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

somehow, the

Rel

But don't worry, I