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?"

dying anyway, planning to leave

looked at me, eyes wide with fear, which only mirrored my own as I sifted

the past three to four years, Ironvale indeed had

big rigs, but personal vehicles

the drivers were terminally ill patients with just a few months left to live, suffering from various diseases beyond just kidney failure.

treated at

documents, my

aligned

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

the driver who killed my dad was so

family wouldn't have to pay compensation or

in

family's case

a shiver ran down my spine as I felt

if these victims had

Eliana looked at

were on the

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

this now. Buy a ticket and go back. Don't meddle

Garfield, I couldn't let Eliana get tangled in this.