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?"

it like, paying people to commit murder because they're dying anyway, planning

mirrored my own as I sifted through the data in

past three to four years, Ironvale indeed had four or five

involving big rigs, but personal

left

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

those documents, my hands trembled

aligned closely with

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

who killed my dad was so determined, having

to pay

my dad likely never crossed paths in decades,

family's case was

shiver ran down my spine as I felt closer to

you check if these victims

Garfield." Eliana looked

were on the

an hour, Eliana's contact provided us with the information. Indeed,

Buy a ticket and go back. Don't meddle further and

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