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?"

because they're dying anyway, planning to leave their families some money before

wide with fear, which only mirrored my own

the past three to four years, Ironvale indeed

involving big rigs, but personal vehicles

ill patients with just a few months left

at this, these three patients were all treated at

documents, my hands trembled

fears aligned closely

for a sum of money for their families,

dad was

to pay compensation or worry about repercussions on

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

my family's case

shiver ran down my spine as I felt

you check if these victims had any beef with the

with Garfield." Eliana looked

were on

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

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