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.

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

between us. He just lent me his room key and left

shops around. Clearing my name was easy.

earlier snub, jumped in. "Just because you say so? What

kids after all this time married to

you were

family matter.

in, immediately shielding

on Lucia. What had Clyde done

questions, knowing it wasn't the right

faced Merritt, then knelt. "Grandpa,

nothing going

is. But

leaning on his cane,

men to play around a

it affects the company, that's another story. Especially after the

serious. Shareholders are

his cane on

And you two need to start a family. Nothing silences rumors

and I couldn't help but lower my gaze, wishing

another solution no one dared mention.

Clyde

leave me for Kayla,

girl"

a "common, over

eats up a love

lectured by everyone,

Lucia's words nagged at me. "Clyde, she mentioned you

it was