Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 171

Audrey’s POV

The surveillance video ended with Blake’s car racing away from NYU, Black SUVs chasing close behind. The screen went black, leaving us in silence.

William leaned forward, eyes fixed on the dark screen. “That’s it? Nothing more?”

“We left the campus, and the cameras couldn’t follow,” I said with a slight shrug.

William let out a sigh. “You couldn’t have taken a few more laps around campus? Give me something more to watch.

“Grandfather!” Blake cut in, shooting me a glance. “If we’d stayed longer, she might not be here now.”

“I’m not that fragile,” I said, rolling my eyes at him.

If not for yesterday’s accident, Blake might have already discovered my illness. If he’d convinced William that I needed to

go to the hospital, my cancer would be impossible to hide.

With that worry in mind, I quickly shifted the focus away from my health. “William, the campus cameras don’t show

everything. But there’s more about what happened after we left NYU.”

I clicked away from the surveillance footage and pulled up a news article. The headline was bold and dramatic: “Coastal

Highway Closed After Major Accident – 2 Dead, 12 Injured!”

Below it sat a photo of Blake’s mangled sedan on the beach, alongside burned–out SUVs.

William’s eyes widened as he stood up. “This accident… was you two?”

He immediately was at my side, grabbing my hands and checking me for injuries. “Audrey, are you okay? Were you hurt?”

His genuine concern touched me. In three years of marriage to Blake, William had given me more family feeling than the

Sinclairs ever had.

was injured protecting me.” I glanced toward Blake. “He has a head wound and

inserting herself between us. She stood on tiptoes, fingers

hurt! Why didn’t you

dripping with concern. “Is this from the accident?

tensed at her touch before relaxing. “It’s nothing,” he

before turning back to Laurel. “If Audrey hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t even remember being injured last

smile he gave her made my chest tighten. “Don’t worry about

I not? Laurel’s lip

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her lip and leaned closer, whispering something I couldn’t hear. Their private exchange felt like

rubbed my temples. Just another day watching Laurel manipulate her way out of trouble.

and Ethan, but somehow she’d twisted it into an intimate

surprising agility, he rose from his wheelchair and stormed over, pulling Laurel away from Blake to examine

divorced Audrey, none of this would’ve happened. No smear campaign, no Ethan posting evidence, no car crash while

those your men who crashed into

as tears streamed down. “Mr. Parker, you’ve got it wrong. I had nothing to do with Ethan or

I’d arranged it, wouldn’t I have known Blake was hurt? I’d have been at his side immediately… But I only just found

eyes. “How can you accuse me? No matter what you think of me, I’d never harm the person I

most…”

he stared at her, momentarily at a loss. Her argument made sense,

attack, she’d have known Blake was in the car and would never have

Blake’s POV

Rose is right,” Audrey set down the mouse and stood with hands in her pockets, regarding Laurel with a cool detachment

night, when we left NYÚ, I

Laurel went still.

thought they were chasing Ethan,” Audrey continued. “When Miss Rose told them to crash our car, she thought

face. The color drained from her

never saw your face!” Grandfather exclaimed, glaring at me. “She couldn’t have known the person with Audrey wasn’t Ethan

it was Blake with Audrey, you wouldn’t have dared harm them! But you didn’t know,

hadn’t helped Audrey and Ethan, she would’ve run

I started, mind

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