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.

look. "Melanie, there's got to be some misunderstanding. Why would you and that Russell kid end up in a...?" She

fuming Merritt. "Nothing happened between us. He just lent me his room key and left the hotel. There's surveillance

24/7 shops around. Clearing my name was easy. Clearing Clyde's,

"Just because you say so? What

all this time married

were abroad, and your

my family

in, immediately shielding

What had

the questions, knowing it

"Grandpa, I was looking

There's nothing going on between

Melanie is.

his cane, but Laird

play around a bit," he chimed in, barely hiding

the company, that's another story. Especially after

"Uncle, this is serious. Shareholders are asking questions. How are

banged his cane on the floor.

to clean up this mess. And you

couldn't help but

another solution no

Clyde

leave me for Kayla,

girl"

a "common, over

eats up a

being lectured by everyone,

"Clyde, she mentioned you looked into my

was an