Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 27

Blake’s POV

Grandpa’s words echoed through the grand living room, and my jaw clenched involuntarily. How dare he suggest I let Audrey go? After everything thời bất happened at his birthday celebration, after her public declaration of divorce, after that scene with James Collins – now my own grandfather was taking bet side?

Before I could respond, Laurel’s quiet sob drew my attention. She stood by the white marble pillar, one hand pressed delicately against it los support, her fate a perfect picture of distress.

It’s all my fault…” Her voice trembled with carefully controlled emotion. If I had known my return would cause such damage to Blake and Audrey’s marriage, I would have rather died in Europe than come back…”

I watched her dab at her eyes with a monogrammed handkerchief, something twisting uncomfortably in my chest. She looked so fragile, so genuinely remorseful. This wasn’t how tonight was supposed to go.

Laurel turned toward the door, but her steps were deliberately slow, almost theatrical. “Perhaps… perhaps I should just go back to Europe…

her usual composure cracking. “Three years ago when Blake was in a

hung in the air like smoke, acrid and bitter. “If you hadn’t gone to Europe then, someone like her

into a cold

Europe seeking treatments, did you take any of

question landed like a stone in still water, ripples of tension spreading through the room. I frowned, something about her tone

She continued. “His vital signs data? Or

a shade paler, her composure cracking

a coma three years ago, I was the one taking care of him. I worked with the nurses to monitor all his vital signs. I still have all that data

hospital occasionally, but she had come almost every day to assist the nurses in taking care of me. I saw my mother, my sister, and even I myself unconsciously lowered my head a bit. Audrey

took out her phone. “According to online sources. Three years ago, you joined an acting training camp the moment you arrived in Europe, spending six months on intensive drama training? I’d love to know how exactly

Something cold settled in my stomach as I remembered those months confusion of waking up from the coma, everyone telling me how Laurel had been searching for treatments while Audrey chose to take care of me in