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."

left, Kayla clutched at my jeans.

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

argue, but I cut him off. "Think

surrounding cameras and TV station logos. He hurriedly ushered me into the car

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

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

knew the mess wouldn't be easy to clean up and could even

away from the Patterson family and even find reporters meant

past, supposedly running off with a rich kid after college, was being detailed as if it

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

of the cameras, Kayla painted me as the homewrecker, the

into someone else's marriage was an act of

was about to switch off my phone and catch

exposed

kidnapping her ex-boyfriend's

news of her ex's suicide, and her scandalous past as a streetwalker during her collège