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."

swarmed us, cameras flashing non-stop. As I left, Kayla clutched at my jeans. "You

tow, Clyde rushed over and forcefully

but I cut him

surrounding cameras and TV station logos. He hurriedly ushered me into the car and drove off, regardless of

was stormy, a clear sign of his foul mood, which kept the reporters at bay. "Our apartment isn't safe right now. Let's head to the mansion. The security's tighter there. You might want

it with me. Instead, he just

mess wouldn't be easy to clean up and could even tarnish the company's

Patterson family and even find reporters meant York must be

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

into who this rich kid was,

Kayla painted me as the homewrecker, the

of deluded fans who believed stepping into someone else's marriage

as I was about to switch off my phone and catch

exposed Kayla

kidnapping her ex-boyfriend's

news of her ex's suicide,