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?"

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

me, eyes wide with fear, which only mirrored my own as

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

big rigs, but personal vehicles

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

look at this, these three patients were all treated at the same hospital,

those documents, my

aligned closely with

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

the driver who killed my dad was so determined, having divorced

have to pay

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

family's case was

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

these victims had any beef with the Crawford

Garfield." Eliana

were on

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 or had disputes

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

Eliana get tangled in this. They were bold enough to do this; her investigation might