Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 85

Audrey’s POV

For a moment, I just stared at the basin, unable to process what had just happened. Water cascaded over the edge, forming a widening puddle on the pristine hospital floor.

‘I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry!” Laurel cried out, horror painted across her face.

A stared at my submerged phone as it sparked and went dark. White smoke curled from the case. When I fished it out, water dripped from every crack and

seam.

I crouched down, picking up the broken pieces, my throat tight. This wasn’t just any phone. Rachel had given it to me four years ago, right before her accident – before she became unresponsive, before her family vanished to Europe with her. The last gift from my best friend.

Looking at the scattered components on the floor, my heart felt sliced open. Four years of messages and photos… and the recording that could have shown Blake who Laurel really was.

“Miss Sinclair, I’m so sorry…” Laurel’s voice cut through my thoughts. She leaned back against her pillows, hand pressed to her chest. ‘When you raised your voice, I got scared and my hand shook… then I knocked over the basin trying to help… I didn’t mean to.”

fragments, each piece a lost connection to Rachel. The memory card

asked. “I’ll replace it for you,

anger. For just a second, I caught a flash of satisfaction in her

all along, didn’t you? Made me stay just so you could destroy

Sinclair, I

better

deep breath, fighting to stay calm. I carefully picked up the remaining pieces and dropped them in my

phone means you’re safe now?” I asked, forcing a cold smile.

face paled

into her lower lip, eyes now filled with

don’t have any backup,” she added, studying my

do or don’t, you’ll find out soon. Try

turned to leave, Blake blocked my path, his

you back up? Photos of Laurel?”

I remembered Laurel’s earlier accusation about unflattering

you hadn’t taken any pictures of