When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 89

Chapter 89



"Grandpa, why can't I just..."

"Leave, now."

Merritt's tone was tinged with frustration, and Clyde knew better than to argue.

Clyde glanced at me, then at Merritt, before finally exiting the study.

As soon as he left, I hurriedly spoke up, "Merritt, didn't we agree?"

We had an agreement that he would help me with the divorce, that he wouldn't make things difficult for me. But what was this?

Was I supposed to be some kind of lady of the manor, expected to turn a blind eye while my husband brought home another woman? Even if Kayla wasn't even in the running!

"We did agree, but circumstances have changed."

Merritt seemed to age right in front of me, constantly massaging his temples.

"Melanie, you're a good kid. This mess is indeed Clyde's fault. He's been reckless over the years."

I kept my head down, not saying a word. Everyone in the Patterson family knew about his recklessness, but they were his flesh and blood. I was just an outsider.

Seeing that I remained silent, he sighed again.

"Clyde's not fully recovered. Kayla didn't just give him sleeping pills; there was a toxin involved."

"She poisoned him?"

being pregnant and potentially making Clyde infertile made my skin crawl. Her

The toxin won't affect his health too much, but it will definitely complicate

it would take at least two years to metabolize the toxin, and with

Given the Lairds' stance, anything could happen in these three

unborn child wasn't just her

took a deep breath and looked up at him

marry into the family. Regardless of

her options and won't collaborate

already on the path to divorce, and now with Kayla

not Clyde, nor the Patterson family. She likely couldn't wait to

to me, and I couldn't

Merritt scoffed disdainfully, "Her? Dream on about entering our doors in

the only Mrs. Patterson, and that

is more suitable to stabilize things than you, so you and Clyde

what I had anticipated. I wanted to argue, but one

background indeed made her unsuitable as a match for the Patterson

fists, striving to keep

I

I appreciate

and me back then, but Clyde and I no longer have feelings for each other. It might be

me who helped you then, it was Clyde. I won't take

his gaze, revealing the

scene at

and the hospital, which was when the Patterson

devoted himself to grooming Clyde, recognizing

you had gone

trouble, he couldn't leave to find you,

would've been killed by those people long ago. She survived until your return, all

the loophole in