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?"

people to commit murder because they're dying anyway, planning to leave

which only mirrored my own as I sifted through the data in

to four years, Ironvale indeed

involving big rigs, but

few months left to live, suffering from various diseases beyond just kidney failure.

all treated at the same

my

aligned closely

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

why the driver who killed my dad was so

to pay compensation or worry

likely never crossed paths in decades, even a police investigation would probably turn up

family's case

a shiver ran down my spine as I felt closer to the

if these victims had any beef with the

Garfield." Eliana looked at me

were on the same

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

a ticket and go back. Don't meddle

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