When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 111

Chapter 111



I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I might drop dead any second and didn't fear a do-or-die battle. But Kayla? Why was she doing this?

Clyde had a thing for her once. If things had stayed smooth between them, snagging the title of Mrs. Patterson would have been a cakewalk for her. Without lifting a finger, she could have effortlessly ousted me. Yet, she chose the most annoying and dead-end path.

When she stepped out of the police station and turned to kneel before me, I stumbled back in shock.

Kayla began in tears, "Melanie, I know you despise me, but you shouldn't have gone after my child. Clyde and I are truly in love. Why would you harm our baby? You're relentless in your pursuit, but why involve my innocent child? You can't bear one yourself, so you begrudge me mine?"

Her tears grew into a torrent of genuine sorrow.

I looked on coldly. "I didn't harm your child."

flashing non-stop. As I left, Kayla clutched at my jeans.

go of my wife!" With his lawyer in tow, Clyde rushed over and forcefully

seemed about to argue, but I cut him

then did Clyde notice the surrounding cameras and TV station logos. He hurriedly ushered me into the car and drove off, regardless of the reporters

which kept the reporters at bay. "Our apartment isn't safe right now. Let's head to the mansion. The

didn't discuss it with me. Instead, he just dropped me

be easy to clean up and could even

the Patterson family and even

about me. Even my past, supposedly running off with a rich kid after college, was being detailed as if

this rich kid

of the cameras, Kayla painted me as the

had her share of deluded fans who believed stepping into someone else's marriage was an act of love, rallying to

was about to switch off my phone and catch

exposed Kayla

kidnapping her ex-boyfriend's

in a bid to frame me for murder. Then came the news of her ex's suicide, and her scandalous past