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?"

like, paying people to commit murder because they're dying anyway, planning to leave their families some money

wide with fear, which only mirrored my own as

past three to four years, Ironvale indeed had four

involving big rigs, but personal

left to live, suffering from various diseases beyond just kidney failure. Eliana pulled out

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

documents, my

fears aligned closely with

in return for a sum of money for

dad was so

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

he and my dad likely never crossed paths in decades, even a police investigation would probably turn

since my family's case

shiver ran down my

you check if these victims had

Garfield." Eliana looked at

were on the

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

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

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