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."

paparazzi swarmed us, cameras flashing non-stop. As I left, Kayla clutched at my jeans. "You can't

his lawyer in tow, Clyde

to argue, but I cut him off. "Think of the

station logos. He hurriedly ushered me into the car and drove

stormy, a clear sign of his foul mood, which kept the reporters at bay. "Our apartment isn't safe right now. Let's head

it with me. Instead, he just

be easy to clean up and could even tarnish the company's

to break away from the Patterson family and even find reporters meant York must

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

of the narrative, yet no one delved into who this rich kid was, why

front of the cameras, Kayla painted me

had her share of deluded fans who believed stepping into someone else's

to switch off my

exposed

kidnapping her ex-boyfriend's

Then came the news of her ex's suicide, and her scandalous past as