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

which only mirrored my

three to four years, Ironvale indeed had four

just involving big rigs, but personal

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

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

my hands

fears aligned closely with

a sum of money for their families,

my dad was so determined, having divorced early

family wouldn't have to pay compensation or worry

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

my family's case was

shiver ran down my spine as I

victims had any beef

Eliana looked at

were on

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

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

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