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?"

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my eyes at

"Alright, I'll look into it. You just take

had more questions, but seeing the pile of files on his desk, I

expect that this seemingly juicy piece of gossip would thrust the Patterson Group into the eye of a storm. Online, Clyde was being lambasted

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

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

tiger doesn't eat its cubs, but this guy? Disowns his kid, even blamed for his

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

clear there was a lot of manipulation

But this

line, even insiders

his misuse of poveree

a fling. FindNovel.net

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

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hit and departments all over were in

PR was scrambling to control the narrative, but

lukewarm at best, offering no clarity for

fiasco, just as I got home from the hospital, I

for the board meeting

where board members were ripping into Clyde. The drop in stock prices was hitting