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

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rolled my eyes

my phone, "Alright, I'll look into it. You

the pile of files on his desk,

of gossip would thrust the Patterson Group into the eye of a

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

anniversary, right?

doesn't eat its cubs, but this guy? Disowns his kid,

the Patterson Group's buildings be anything but shoddy? No way I'm living

clear there was a lot of manipulation in the

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his misuse of poveree

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scrambling to control the narrative, but to

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

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hanging up, I quickly checked the company group chat where board members were ripping into Clyde. The drop in stock prices was hitting their pockets