When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 80

Chapter 80



I was peering out the window when I saw it - a woman with long hair tumbling down to the ground, surrounded by a spreading pool of crimson. Looking back to where she'd fallen from, there was no one in sight.

Below, the gathering crowd let out shrieks of horror. Glancing down again, I caught someone pointing up at me, shouting, "The killer, the killer's still up there!"

Almost reflexively, I ducked away from the window, thinking to dash downstairs to see what was happening for myself, but I ended up face-to-face with the cops.

"Melanie, stop right there! You're under suspicion for the murder of Isla. You are being detained. Drop anything you're holding!"

Four officers had me surrounded in no time, and I was so stunned I couldn't even move.

One of the female officers stepped forward, took the coffee cup from my hand, and sealed it in an evidence bag before slapping handcuffs around my wrists.

It was surreal. Just a day later, and I was back in an interrogation room at the police station, this time with handcuffs on.

I tried to explain that I had only heard Isla's voice and hadn't actually seen her. They could check the surveillance footage, I said.

But the cops just sneered. "The hospital's surveillance system was down for upgrades today, during your husband's emergency. You must have heard that."

I racked my brain but couldn't recall any such thing.

in surgery; why would I

cut the act! We have concrete evidence against you. Even without the footage,

was the middle of the night,

quiet,

a phone with a

Isla's phone. The kidnapper, Jarvis, has been using this to contact

and I didn't have Isla's contact," I protested, panic setting in. Where was all

I remembered I hadn't done anything, a calm settled over me. I had to clear my name; I

the Laird family would surely take

even if I could prove my innocence and Clyde woke up, it might be too

shocked to see messages from Clyde's

messages outlined where

today. There were threats too, warning him to comply or " would harm his daughter, complete

child, I was lost. What was going

I don't know Jarvis or this girl. And Clyde...Clyde was sedated

would I have the kidnapper bring Isla to the hospital?

to reason with them, but the cops

if you were using Clyde's phone

was found in an apartment registered in your name. What do you have

was dumbfounded, speechless. Someone was

I'd been worried about was Clyde; I hadn't

files today. I have surveillance footage as proof, and the compromised material is from her