When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 75

Chapter 75



I never really took the whole debacle to heart. It was the Pattersons who should've been sweating bullets, not me.

Clyde's scandal was bound to ding the stock market, and the Pattersons' fortune would take a hit.

After all, it's just me now. No family left to fret over.

But just as I was leaving the hotel that morning, a group of guys blocked my path.

"Ma'am, the boss wants you back home," the lead guy, Merritt's chief of security, informed me. Seems Merritt Patterson got wind of the scandal too. After the last incident, he'd been unusually fixated on online chatter.

I hopped into the car without protest and shot Vinson a quick text to say I'd be skipping work. I also messaged Clyde: not my circus, not my monkeys.

As I arrived at the Patterson Mansion, Merritt looked like he'd swallowed a whole bottle of antacids. The man was not in good shape.

"Melanie! Look at the mess you've created!"

Lucia charged at me as if she was going to take a swing. I sidestepped, and she nearly took a tumble.

"You dare dodge?"

"If I didn't, you'd be up for assault."

I faced her with a blank stare.

To an outsider, you'd think she genuinely cared for Clyde. In reality, she just couldn't stand me.

some misunderstanding. Why would you and that Russell kid end up in a...?" She couldn't even bring herself

the fuming Merritt. "Nothing happened between us. He just lent me his room key

hard to verify with all the 24/7 shops around. Clearing my name was easy. Clearing Clyde's,

"Just because you say so?

kids after all this time married to

you? Remember when you were abroad, and your family had that accident? He

my family matter.

rushed in, immediately

locked on Lucia. What had Clyde

the questions, knowing it wasn't the

knelt. "Grandpa, I was looking for

yesterday. There's nothing going on between

kind of person Melanie is.

on his cane, but Laird quickly supported

to play around a

it affects the company, that's another

serious. Shareholders are

boiling with rage, banged his cane on the

And you two need to start a family. Nothing

up again, and I couldn't help but lower my gaze,

was another solution no

Clyde

leave me for Kayla,

girl"

his love for a "common, over a marriage

up a

by everyone, Clyde finally took me

me. "Clyde, she mentioned you looked into my dad's

it was an