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."

eyes teared up as I looked at him, fighting

too well how much

family of his own, he still yearned for a child of

a child of my own. But the child within me couldn't

bear it, teared up as

young. You can try again in

are having children in their forties

bowed, uncertain if I'd even live

the study turned

If

and Lucia

guests and

look before quickly

you know how Clyde is. He was just

out of love, he's completely out. It's better

never cared

me or Rachel, it made

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

respond,

Clyde's heart all these