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?"

watched him without any

after I threatened him a bit, he confessed. But there's someone behind Kayla, I've

there was

it? Was it

his head. "She said the Patterson Group would eventually belong to

go cold, yet it felt

had Clyde. If the Patterson Group was to belong to

sitting beside me,

looked up at me,

let me go. Please don't call the police. Just consider me a bad fart you let out;

you trust Kayla so much? You know Clyde had

numerous women. Since our marriage,

that didn't even include the young stars and models he never brought home. How

from before. She used to... work as a whore

I was

if resigned,

had been working as a whore even before she graduated, making quite a sum. She and Paul were regulars to each

couple of years

has it she got pregnant and even has a daughter. That's when we lost touch.

blackmailed me!"

sudden realization clicked for

was threatened, but Kayla

child was hers, and the

the police arrived, I

them. The station was nearby,