When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 85

Chapter 85



Paul was gasping for air, panic clearly etched into his features.

"No, it wasn't me, it was all a misunderstanding, I swear!"

I looked at him and sighed softly.

"Paul, with the experience you got, you could bag a director's job somewhere else with no sweat. We've been colleagues. I know you're not the mastermind behind this. Why ruin your life over someone else's scheme?"

Jade was beside me, signaling frantically. I knew she wanted to call the cops, but I shook my head. Calling the police now would make it harder to uncover the truth and might even tip off the real culprit.

I needed to get more information first. If York was indeed behind this, I needed solid evidence.

Paul squinted, pondering for a moment, then turned his gaze to me.

"Melanie, you're Mrs. Patterson. Can you promise not to call the police?"

"What do you think?" I wasn't about to make any promises to scum like him.

Defeated, he slumped to the ground.

"I'll confess. Kayla put me up to this. She said if I could bring you down, she'd become Mrs. Patterson, and I'd be the director of the Design Department. She bought some design drafts to use under my name. I refused, so Mack took the fall."

"It was you who released the virus and attacked me, wasn't it?"

any expression, and

I have evidence of Mack taking money, and after I threatened him a bit, he confessed. But there's someone behind Kayla, I've heard her receiving strategies

So, there was someone

was it? Was it

"She said the Patterson Group would eventually belong to that person. I

yet it felt like we were on

Clyde. If the Patterson Group was to

sitting beside me,

up at

sake, please let me go. Please don't call the police. Just consider me a bad fart you let out; I swear

last question, why did you trust Kayla so much?

been involved with numerous women. Since our marriage,

and models he never brought home. How could Paul trust Kayla? Paul coughed

other from before. She used to... work as

Jade exclaimed. I was too

as if

making quite a sum. She and Paul were regulars to

quit a couple of

even has a daughter. That's when we lost touch. But she... she had photos

blackmailed me!"

for me,

daughter and was threatened, but

child was hers,

I had gotten most of

to call them. The station was