Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 44

Audrey’s POV

Looking at the couple before me, I knew I should be feeling heartbroken, upset, or even furious right note-

But perhaps because I no longer held any expectations for Blake Parker, my heart had grown completely numb, desold of any emotion.

Blake darling… After crying for a while, Laurel seemed to notice I had no intention of apologizing. She shifted in Blake’s arms, pretending to hem recovered somewhat, and buried herself deeper into his chest with practiced vulnerability. ‘Don’t be too hard on Sisa Sinclair.

“Miss Sinclait,” she turned to me with perfectly calculated distress in her voice. “I know you’ve always had something against me

“Blake and 1. there’s really nothing between us… As she spoke these words, she deliberately pressed herself closer to Blake, her body language completely contradicting her statement.

A cold smile touched my lips. Miss Rose, you’re clinging to my husband while we’re still legally married, yet you claim there’s nothing between you?”

Her face turned pale instantly. She quickly released Blake, but tears had already started flowing down her cheeks. ‘Miss Sinclair, please don’t think that way, Blake and I…

1 only see her as a sister,” Blake cut in, his voice hard and cold. ‘Stop making things so complicated.”

“Whatever is between you two,” I said, surprised by the steadiness in my voice, ‘I stopped caring long ago.” I met his gaze directly. “Blake, just sign the papers, okay? That’s the best thing you can do. See you at the court tomorrow.”

I could see his jaw tightened – a tell I’d learned to recognize during our marriage. He was angry, but more than that, he was caught off guard. Good.

“And don’t forget,” I added as I turned to leave, “the racetrack’s security footage will show exactly what happened today. You might want to review it before demanding any more apologies.” I paused at the door. “Oh, and the fifty million dollars from our bet – I’ll expect that in my account before the divorce proceedings.”

I made it halfway down the corridor before the pain hit. My stomach cramped violently, forcing me to lean against the wall. Through the partially open door of the suite, I could hear Laurel’s voice, perfectly pitched to carry:

“Blake darling, how dare she speak to us that way!”

I deliberately crash into her?

couldn’t afford to lose, deliberately slowing

so upset, my

me want to laugh, though the pain in my own stomach made that impossible. Here she

myself off the wall, forcing my legs to carry me back to my own room. A few minutes later, when I

urgent family business,” she said, crossing the room to grasp my hand. Her eyes searched my face. “Blake and that bitch, they didn’t

you

trouble, did

slightly. “Blake just wanted me to apologize to

disbelief/“When that woman deliberately tried to kill you? God, is Blake completely blind?” She gripped my hand tighter. “The nerve

trading my hospital gown for the clothes Astrid had brought. A faint smile touched my lips. “Well, I’ve always been an easy

for him, haven’t I?”

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Chapter 44

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down my fresh clothes, my voice steady. Tar not

a breath I hadn’t realized she was holding. Good. That’s

say more, my phone rang

skipped. She usually only sent messages, knowing I wanted to keep

to Astrid and stepped into the stairwell, my hand trembling

an unmistakable strain. The gentleman who wants to buy your medication just called. He needs the drises

about the fifty million. And he

phone. They had only made