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.

do with James,” my voice

on an edge I’d never heard before, you’re the one being unfaithful with Laurel Rose. Don’t

second. Blake’s presence was suffocating. The familiar ache in my stomach began to intensify,

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

William’s birthday made my chest tighten. The

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

at his lips. “You know, I actually felt guilty before, thinking I’d neglected you by paying too much attention to

now I see – all of this was just an act. You ve been conspiring with your dear senior Collins

hospital blanket tightly as I looked at the sneer on Blake’s face. The pain in my stomach was nothing compared to the despair crushing

tension, his voice tight

your words!

cold enough to lower the room temperature. “I’ve checked. Just some minor stomach issues. Why

to get my attention, aren’t

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20: Are You Planning to Be

his cold expression, listening to his sarcastir words, I had never felt him more like a stranger than in this monsent. A

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.

an act!” James stood up so quickly his chair scraped again the floor. Blake Parker, have you na

off before

I needed was Blake’s pity- or

was deafening. Blake’s gaze flickered between us, something dark and possessive

you loved me,” he finally said, his voice unnaturally calm. “Refusing

him pace the room like a caged predator. “But

came out like a whip crack: “Now let me tell you, Audrey.

irony of his words s wasn’t lost on me. Until death

Everything between Laurel and me is open

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