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,

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

there was someone

was it?

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

seemed to go cold, yet it felt

Patterson Group was

frowned, sitting beside me,

up at me, his

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 this

why did you trust Kayla so much? You know Clyde

had been involved with numerous women. Since our marriage, I

models he never

She used to... work as a whore

exclaimed. I was too

as if resigned,

had been working as a whore even before she graduated, making quite a sum.

quit a couple of

it she got pregnant and even has a daughter. That's when we lost touch. But she... she had photos from back

blackmailed me!"

for me,

a daughter and was threatened, but Kayla could easily take the girl, something

child was hers, and

the time the police arrived, I had gotten most

to call them.