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 he

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

interest piqued. So, there was

it? Was

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

yet it felt like we were on to

only had Clyde. If the Patterson Group

sitting beside

at me,

let me go. Please don't call the police. Just consider me a bad fart you let out; I swear I won't do anything like

trust Kayla so much? You know

had been involved with numerous women. Since our

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

She used to... work as a whore

exclaimed. I was

as if

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

a couple of

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

blackmailed me!"

realization clicked for me,

and was threatened, but Kayla

if the child was hers, and

police arrived, I had gotten most of

them. The station was nearby, so they arrived