When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 120

Chapter 120



I shoved Clyde aside and landed hard on the floor.

Seeing Kayla's lifeless body next to me, a bullet wound between her brows, I realized that death in real life bore little resemblance to the dramatic scenes portrayed on TV.

There wasn't much blood, but her eyes were wide open, staring toward the door, unblinking in death.

Paramedics in hazmat suits rushed in, pulling Clyde away from the scene.

Summoning the last of my strength, I crawled to Kayla's side and fished a pill bottle out of her pocket.

toward me. "Melanie, Melanie,

snot mixing as they dripped onto my

shoved two pills into his mouth.

place was swarming with officials, all set to examine

hearing only the hospital where Warren worked had the necessary facilities and isolation units, I felt a wave of relief wash over me. "Let, um, let Eliana's brother

said before my consciousness faded, fighting to

plan echoed in my mind. Indeed, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. If Clyde knew about my

thoughts a chaotic

disdain as he gently pushed my hand away with his clipboard. "The patient is alert. Radiation exposure isn't too severe.

"Dr. Chandler, can you read

read faces. She had a stroke of bad luck, but stepping into our

on my lips. At the Chandler family's hospital, Clyde had no clue about my condition. When I woke up, Warren's poker face greeted me again. "You've been eating a lot of health supplements, haven't

"There's a 'but,'