When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 197



Everyone's eyes were glued to Clyde in disbelief, and I felt as if my blood had turned to ice. Was Clyde suffering from amnesia, or were his memories all jumbled up?

I approached him, cupping his face in my hands. "Clyde, look at me closely. Who am I?"

"Melanie, have you lost it? My girlfriend's right here!" he yelled, then turned to Rachel and said, "Babe, I swear I didn't do anything! It's all her fault."

"This isn't exactly my idea of fun, you know!" I retorted, just as he shoved me away. Rachel quickly caught me, then whispered in my ear, "What on earth is happening?"

I shook my head; I was as clueless as she was.

Fortunately, a nurse came to wheel Clyde out for a CT scan, and the room quieted down.

Rachel and I exchanged bewildered looks.

"I barely said two sentences to him when I got here, and he woke up, nearly gave me a heart attack."

"He wakes up and claims I'm his girlfriend. I thought he was joking, so I played along."

"Do you think he's developed some sort of psychological disorder?"

had come for a routine check-up

before over Clyde, and a casual

didn't expect to find

Clyde together; otherwise, he might have never

by Clyde's side for so long with no sign of him waking

arm around my shoulder. "Melanie, don't worry.

nodded, though I wasn't

showed Clyde's physical functions were fine,

remembered his college days, other times the period after being recognized by the Patterson family. Throughout it all, his girlfriend was always by his side in

going abroad, he even casually said, "Rachel went abroad for further studies, right?

and I shared a dorm

looked at Rachel

I

Clyde too. Could you look

reluctance in her eyes, but

to himself was the priority. Everything else took

in his memories, like tangled

most important asset for any revolution. Rachel, please

Rachel eventually sighed and