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

rolled my eyes

look into

of files on his desk, I

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

some flash-in-the-pan starlet, and look how

his mistress out on their anniversary,

cubs, but this guy?

CEO like that, can the Patterson Group's buildings be anything but shoddy? No

was a lot of manipulation

But this

a line, even insiders

his misuse of poveree

a fling. FindNovel.net

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

for

vel.net

took a hit and departments all over were in

was scrambling to

was lukewarm at best, offering

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

come back for the board

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