Chapter 20: Are You Planning to Be A Homewrecker?

Audrey’s POV

Hearing the familiar voice, I fell my heart skip a beat as I instinctively looked toward the doorway.

Blake stood there at some point, elegantly rolling up his sleeves as fill my ward, making the space feel smaller somehow.

walked in with a cold smile. His presence seemed to instantly

“My, my…” His eyes fixed on where James’s hand still held mine, “What a touching scene.

I watched as he moved deeper into the room, each step seemingly ending on my heart, making me unconsciously feel a bit nervous. “Promising to stay with a mantled woman…” is voler was filled with sarcasm. Mr. Collins, are you planning to be a homewrecker?”

James’s hand tensed over mine before he quickly withdrew it. “Mr. Parker, watch your month.”

Are my words:

closeness.”

“This

inappropriate, or are your actions unseemly? Blake moved closer, with a fake smile on his face, “How touching, your

isn’t what you’re thinking,” James started to explain, but Blake cut him off with a sharp gesture.

“So this is why you’re so desperate for divorce?” His eyes bore into mine, cold and accusing. “For him?”

Hearing this question, I felt something inside me grow still. Here he was, after spending every waking moment with Laurel since her return, having the nerve to question my integrity and my friendship with James? The bitter irony of it all nearly made me laugh.

James,” my voice came out steadier than I

Parker,” James’s voice took on an edge I’d never heard before, you’re the

with each passing second. Blake’s presence was suffocating. The familiar ache in my

each word precise and cutting, “you’ve been acting

mention of William’s birthday made my chest tighten.

fresh the public humiliation, Thalia’s slaps, Blake rushing to catch Laurel

know, I actually felt guilty before, thinking I’d neglected you

this was just an act. You ve been conspiring with your dear senior Collins all along, haven’t

my lip hard, clutching the hospital blanket tightly as I looked at the sneer on Blake’s face. The pain in my stomach was nothing

his voice tight with barely contained anger.

your words!

to lower the room temperature. “I’ve checked. Just some minor

attention, aren’t you?” His eyes narrowed. “Your acting skills have

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Are You Planning

him more like a stranger than in this monsent. A bitter smile played at my

ailment to hide the truth. But James had seen through it almost Immediately. If blake had shown even a fraction of the concern he wished on Laurel, he would have discovered

long ago.

quickly his chair scraped again

him off before he could

was Blake’s pity- or worse, his

between us,

finally said, his voice unnaturally calm. “Refusing divorce no matter

room like a caged predator. “But right after

me tell you, Audrey. Until I

s wasn’t lost on me. Until

Laurel isn’t filthy like yours with James! Everything between Laurel and me is open and above board.

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