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 one being unfaithful with Laurel Rose. Don’t project

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

since Laurel returned,” he continued, each word precise and cutting, “you’ve been acting out

chest tighten.

humiliation, Thalia’s slaps, Blake rushing to catch Laurel while I

“You know,

of this was just an act. You ve been conspiring

hard, clutching the hospital blanket tightly as I looked at the sneer on Blake’s face. The pain in my stomach was

tight

your words!

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

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

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Planning to Be

his sarcastir words, I had never felt him more like a stranger than in

simple stomach 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

long ago.

an act!” James stood up so quickly his chair scraped again the floor. Blake

cut him off before

was Blake’s pity- or

Blake’s gaze flickered between us,

finally said, his voice

the room like a caged predator. “But right after finding a replacement,

like a whip crack: “Now let me tell you, Audrey. Until I

on me. Until death if only he knew how soon that

my relationship with Laurel isn’t filthy like yours with James! Everything

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