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 head

a magician's

rolled my eyes at

look into it. You just take

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

eye of a storm. Online, Clyde was being lambasted left and right,

Patterson ditched our darling Suzie for some flash-in-the-pan starlet,

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

guy? Disowns his kid, even blamed for

Patterson Group's buildings be anything

was clear there was a lot of manipulation in the

But this

a line,

his misuse of poveree

a fling. FindNovel.net

to check; I knew the Patterson Group's stocks

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departments all over

was scrambling to control the

was lukewarm at

of the fiasco, just as I got home from the

back for the

quickly checked the company group chat where board members were ripping into Clyde. The drop in