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

magician's apprentice

rolled my

I'll look into it.

seeing the pile of

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

Suzie for some flash-in-the-pan starlet,

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

its cubs, but this guy? Disowns his

CEO like that, can the Patterson Group's buildings be anything

clear there was a lot of

But this

a line, even

his misuse of poveree

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I knew the Patterson Group's stocks were plummeting. Sales in

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took a hit and departments all over were in an

PR was scrambling to control the narrative, but to

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

as I got home from the

for the board meeting

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