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."

I left, Kayla clutched at my jeans. "You

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

but I cut him off. "Think of

did Clyde notice the surrounding cameras and TV station logos. He hurriedly ushered me into the

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 to take a few days off. It's best to stay

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

clean up

from the Patterson family and even find reporters meant

running off with a rich kid after

convinced of the narrative, yet no one delved into who this rich kid was, why I left with him,

the cameras, Kayla painted me as the

deluded fans who believed stepping into someone

was about to switch off

someone exposed Kayla

kidnapping her ex-boyfriend's

me for murder. Then came the news of her ex's suicide, and her scandalous past as a streetwalker