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 their

me, eyes wide with fear, which only mirrored my own as I sifted through the data in my

Ironvale indeed

big rigs,

drivers were terminally ill patients with just a few months left to live,

were all treated at the same hospital, and Marilyn is

documents, my

aligned

murder in return for a sum of money for their families, they'd probably see it

my dad was so

way, his family wouldn't have to pay compensation or worry

he and my dad likely never crossed paths in decades, even a

my family's

a shiver ran down my spine as I

you check if these victims had

Eliana looked at me

were on the

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

a ticket and go back. Don't meddle further and don't come back, got

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