When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 161

Chapter 161



On a stormy night, filled with claps of thunder and heavy rain, Lisa bombarded Clyde with several calls and flirty texts. Finally, I picked up the phone and gave her a piece of my mind, which got her to finally hang up.

I could almost picture Talbot sitting beside her, his face red with anger.

The thought of him pushing his own daughter to do such things made my skin crawl. How could a father be like that?

Considering Lisa's wish to see him behind bars, or worse, didn't seem all that unfathomable anymore.

There's an old saying, "Like father, like son," but if the father's heart is cold, the children's will be too.

The next day, Clyde went solo to negotiate a deal with the Crawford family's company, while I sought out Eliana for some assistance.

I had asked her the previous night to dig into whether Ironvale had seen a similar pattern of terminally ill patients involved in fatal accidents, and, shockingly, there was.

"Melanie, you don't think there's some sort of organization like in those TV dramas, do you? Life imitating art...it can't be real, right?"

they're dying anyway, planning to

wide with fear, which only mirrored my

to four years, Ironvale indeed had

big rigs, but

the drivers were terminally ill patients with just a few months left to live, suffering from various

these three patients were all treated at the same hospital, and Marilyn

those documents, my

fears aligned

roped into committing murder in return for a sum of money for their families, they'd

the driver who killed my dad was so determined, having

way, his family wouldn't have to pay

my dad likely never crossed paths in decades, even a police investigation

family's case

my

you check if these victims had any

with Garfield." Eliana

on the same

system investigations were easily accessible, and within an hour, Eliana's contact provided us with the information. Indeed, the deceased had either competed with the

now. Buy a ticket and go back.

it undoubtedly involved Talbot and Garfield, I couldn't let Eliana get tangled in this. They were