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?"

my head

magician's apprentice or

rolled my eyes at

I'll look into it. You just take it

the pile of files on his desk,

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

Suzie for some flash-in-the-pan

took his mistress out on their anniversary, right? I remember his

but this guy? Disowns his kid, even blamed

Group's buildings be anything but

clear there was a lot of manipulation

But this

line, even insiders

his misuse of poveree

a fling. FindNovel.net

knew the Patterson Group's stocks were

for

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took a hit and departments all over were in an

to control the narrative, but to

this time, Merritt's response was lukewarm at best, offering no

I got home from the hospital, I received a

back for the board

where board members were ripping into Clyde. The drop in stock prices was hitting