Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 244

Audrey’s POV

I tossed the broken wine bottle aside, my voice cold. “This is what hurting you actually looks like.”

The ballroom went dead silent. Under the bright chandeliers, everyone froze, staring at us.

Thalia looked down at the red wine dripping from her hair onto her dress. For a second, she just stood there, processing what had happened.

Then she screamed before looking around, suddenly aware of all the eyes on her. Her shock quickly turned to rage.

“Audrey Sinclair, I’ll make you pay for this!” she yelled, lunging at me with her hands out.

I stepped back easily, avoiding her. “What’s wrong? Angry now?”

“You think you’re humiliated?” I asked, my voice steady. “I just broke one bottle over your head and you’re this upset? Have you forgotten how you and your mother treated me for three years?”

I made sure everyone could hear me. “Three years ago, when I first married Blake and he was still a vegetative patient, I attended my first Parker family dinner. You broke three bottles over my head, called me a gold–digger and country bumpkin not fit for the Parker mansion.”

I stared her down. “Remember that?”

Confusion crossed her face as she tried to recall what I was

talking about.

I found it darkly funny. The victim remembered every detail of the humiliation – how the bottles struck, where they hit – while the person who did it had forgotten the whole thing.

Back then, I had just married Blake and wasn’t welcome in the Parker family. At that dinner, William was sick and absent, while Blake was still unconscious in the hospital. That night, with Rebecca directing her, Thalia broke bottle after bottle over my head, trying to force me to divorce Blake and leave the family for good.

Thalia narrowed her eyes, seeming to remember. “Oh, that. You were stubborn that day.”

“I broke three wine bottles, slapped you twice, and you still wouldn’t back down,” she said with disgust. “You kept saying you’d never leave my brother, never divorce him.” She smiled mockingly. “Yet in the end, you still divorced him, didn’t you?”

My expression hardened. “Why I divorced Blake – don’t you all know?”

I laughed coldly. “You bring up how determined I was just to mock how it ended up being a joke, right?”

should never have expected anything from Blake. I shouldn’t have had fantasies about the quality of you Parkers. I was blind to have wanted to marry Blake and join

words echoed

mocking smile froze as shock filled her eyes. The crowd stared at me in stunned

Thalia’s POV

rippling through the crowd

she speak about

have broken

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her. Why else cause this scene

like a hammer. As the Parker heiress,

watching as Audrey turned to leave with Astrid and Rachel. My

beside me, touching my arm. “Let it go. Don’t fight with

“You know how William dotes

“The old man even wants Audrey

might be more important than you, his

here tonight. If he sees you fighting with Audrey, he’ll say you’re being

stay calm after that? Laurel’s words were stoking

Laurel’s comments were like gasoline on

her continuous prodding, something

and charged at Audrey from behind. The

family! Now she’s nothing to us. Why should I

caught up to her, raising the knife high. The crowd

shrieked, my voice wild

Audrey’s POV

shout finally alerted me. I turned,

eyes. I tried to move, but it was too late. With no options left, I closed my eyes, bracing

lost it completely! I thought. All I did was pay her back the same way she humiliated me years

expected pain. Instead, I heard Laurel cry out: “Blake

sharp smell of

opened my

the knife blade in mid–air. The sharp edge had cut deep into his palm, and blood dripped from

recognized Blake’s hand instantly. My heart