Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 223

“If you’re thinking I’ll smuggle you in, forget it.”

“No, nothing like that,” I said with an awkward laugh.

I took a deep breath. “I haven’t seen Rachel in so long. Four years since the accident…”

I couldn’t hide my sadness. ‘I don’t know what four years as a vegetative patient has done to her…”

“Could you take some photos of her for me?”

His hands tightened on the wheel. ‘You want pictures of Rachel Hayes?”

“Yes.”

“You’ve taken care of me,‘ he said, his voice lower. “You should know after lying in bed for months, faces change. Muscles sag.”

“That was just me after half a year. Rachel’s been there four years.”

He paused. ‘She won’t look good.”

“It doesn’t matter,” I said through the ache in my chest. “She’s my friend. I won’t care how she looks.

“I just want to see her, to know she’s been properly cared for.”

I gazed into the darkness. “Just seeing her once, even if I died the next moment, I could accept that.”

me forward. Blake turned around, eyes

you talking about? There’s nothing wrong with you,

when you supposedly knew her. Why are you saying these things? You

anger and

believe me no

think I knew Rachel before,” I said, “maybe you could take photos so I can get to know her

never meet her in this

stared at me,

restarting the car. “What’s with all this death talk at

the window with a bitter smile.

driving,

still young,” I

him five years, but it

a shrink,” he said, gripping

“Maybe you’re right

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pressed harder on the accelerator, clearly wanting this trip to

“If one day… I suddenly died, would you feel even a tiny bit of heartache for

lips pressed into a line, but

cheek. I

He never loved me alive. Why would he

the Manhattan crossroads when we pulled up. He

ready