Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 20

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.

my voice came out

edge I’d never heard before, you’re

The familiar ache in my stomach began to intensify, but I forced myself to remain

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

made my chest

slaps, Blake rushing to

“You know, I actually felt

act. You ve been conspiring with

the sneer on Blake’s

James interjected, cutting through the tension, his voice tight with barely contained anger. “Audrey’s health is

your words!

temperature. “I’ve checked. Just some minor stomach issues.

copy Laurel’s bleeding to get my attention, aren’t you?” His eyes

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

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

long ago.

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

cut him off before he could reveal my

needed was

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

said, his voice unnaturally calm. “Refusing

predator. “But right after finding a replacement, you’re desperate

me tell you, Audrey. Until I agree, you’ll remain Mrs. Parker until

of his words s wasn’t lost on me. Until death if only he knew how soon that

like yours with James! Everything between Laurel and

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