When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 212



"Clyde, have you lost your mind? Do you even hear yourself?" Evelyn exclaimed, reaching out to grab him, but he shrugged her off effortlessly. Merritt was visibly livid, chest heaving, unable to muster a single word.

Clyde's gaze swept over us before he made his way to the door, taking Rachel's hand once again.

"I've said it before, I love only her, and I need to get a divorce."

"I'll have the lawyer draw up the divorce papers and send them to you. Let's end this amicably."

With that, he left with Rachel in tow.

I quietly closed the door behind them and took my seat again, feeling as if my heart couldn't possibly bear any more sorrow.

Evelyn opened her mouth to speak, struggling for words. "Don't stoop to his level. When he comes to his senses..."

"But when's that gonna happen?" I asked, head bowed, completely emotionless.

The doctor had said about a month, but now, as the month draws to a close, he's only grown closer to Rachel, completely forgetting about me. In his heart, I'm not the one he loves.

Merritt took a few deep breaths, his heavy breathing audible in the silence before he finally spoke. "Melanie, he's wronged you. Let him make it up to you. But this child..."

"It needs to be terminated, Merritt. You understand."

up as I looked at

too well how much

family of his own, he still yearned for a

I, too, longed for a child of my own. But the child within

it, teared up

you're both still young. You can

their forties these days. It's not too

if I'd even live to see

atmosphere in the study

If

uncle and

guests and

disdainful look before quickly sidling up to

is. He was just as insistent

man falls out of love, he's completely out.

Lucia never

Rachel, it made

publicly as fickle, it would tarnish his reputation and harm the company, ultimately benefiting

no one respond, Lucia turned

truly captured Clyde's heart all these years. Otherwise, why