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?"

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

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

to four years, Ironvale indeed had four or five such

involving big rigs, but personal vehicles

with just a few months left to live, suffering from various diseases beyond just kidney failure. Eliana pulled

three patients were all treated at the same

those documents, my

fears aligned

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

why the driver who killed my dad was so determined,

family wouldn't have to pay compensation or worry about repercussions on

likely never crossed paths in decades, even

since my family's case

documents, a shiver ran down my

these victims

with Garfield." Eliana looked

on the same

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

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

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