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

magician's

my eyes at

phone, "Alright, I'll look

seeing the pile of files on his desk,

did I expect that this seemingly juicy piece of gossip would thrust the Patterson Group into the eye of

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

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

this guy? Disowns his

a CEO like that, can the Patterson Group's buildings be anything but shoddy? No way I'm living

was clear there was a

But this

a line, even insiders

his misuse of poveree

a fling. FindNovel.net

to check; I knew the Patterson Group's stocks were plummeting.

for

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a hit and departments all over were in an

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

lukewarm at best, offering no clarity for

of the fiasco, just as I got home from the

come back for the

chat where board members were