When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 211



"Word on the street is Clyde had a girlfriend back in his college days, and it's her, right?"

"How could it be anyone else? He admitted it himself. The whole 'first love returning from abroad' scenario playing out in real life? That's a first for me."

"But why did he go after Melanie in the first place? It couldn't possibly be because Melanie was desperate for a higher social standing, could it?" The buzz of conversation hit me like a wave, making my head spin.

I tried to leave, only to be stopped in my tracks by Clyde.

"Melanie, I have no clue whose child you're carrying, but the Patterson family won't stand for it."

"I never liked you. You manipulated your way into marrying me, but I'm willing to let bygones be bygones. Let's get a divorce and save face for everyone."

His words only fueled the rumors more.

Once upon a time, Clyde and I had put on a convincing act as a loving couple.

His heroics in Ironvale to save me were well-known, even making the news.

But now, he seemed to have forgotten all that, pushing for a divorce.

This led many to speculate that our relationship was a sham from the start, devoid of any real emotion.

was holding Rachel's hand

subtly before looking at me with an

sent a chill down my

Clyde was struggling with his memory, so why let him continue this

on me, but before I could process it, Merritt

me, gripping my

to the study. The birthday party is

support him

just me,

all fixed on

what's going on here?" Evelyn asked,

timing, this

lost

child has to

nodded reluctantly,

wasn't hard to uncover. Clyde had been drugged, and I was the one

wasn't unusual for something to happen between a husband and wife, and Clyde remembered being

now, he

relief, then tensed up

exposed to radiation, and didn't

again, looking up