When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

"Hypnotize? A snap of the fingers, and you cry when told to cry, laugh when told to laugh?"

"Melanie, have you caught whatever bug Clyde's got? Lost your marbles?"

Warren looked at me as though I had two heads, and I just rolled my eyes and pulled out my phone.

"Look, this is Rachel, her outfit and all, pretty much a carbon copy of my old style."

"And the stuff she's buying, it's all right up my alley."

"You think she's trying to mimic you, to convince Clyde she's you?"

Warren pondered for a moment, his gaze shifting between me and the phone screen.

I nodded vigorously.

So, if Clyde's noggin wasn't scrambled, maybe, just maybe, it was some sort of mind trick?

I know it sounds far-fetched, but isn't it said that art imitates life, and sometimes transcends it?

He gave me a look that screamed 'I can't even' before glancing back at the phone.

"Did Rachel study psychology?"

I shook my head.

"Does she know Clyde was gonna get hit by that frisbee?"

shook my

magician's apprentice or

my eyes

"Alright, I'll look

had more questions, but seeing the pile of files on his desk,

the Patterson Group into the eye of a storm. Online, Clyde was being lambasted left and right, and past mistakes

Patterson ditched our darling Suzie for some flash-in-the-pan starlet, and look how that

mistress out on their anniversary, right? I remember his

this guy? Disowns his kid, even

a CEO like that, can the Patterson Group's buildings be anything but shoddy?

a lot of manipulation

But this

line, even insiders

his misuse of poveree

a fling. FindNovel.net

Patterson Group's stocks were

for

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a hit and departments

Patterson Group's PR was scrambling to control the narrative,

was lukewarm at

fourth day of the fiasco, just as I got home from the

back for the

the company group chat where board members were