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?”

anything from Blake. I shouldn’t have had fantasies about the quality of you Parkers.

echoed through the

again. Thalia’s mocking smile froze as shock filled her eyes. The crowd stared

Thalia’s POV

through the crowd

she speak about the Parkers that

she feared them, she wouldn’t have broken

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wronged her. Why else cause this scene

the Parker heiress, I’d never

leave with Astrid and Rachel. My hands

my arm. “Let it go. Don’t fight with her

lowered her voice. “You know

closer to my ear, she whispered, “The old man

be more

tonight. If he

I stay calm after that? Laurel’s words were stoking my anger. William’s

were like

prodding, something in

dinner knife from the table and charged at

on her head when she was still family! Now she’s nothing to us. Why should I let her get away with this? I’m Thalia Parker! Even if

crowd gasped as I swung the knife at

shrieked, my

Audrey’s POV

and Thalia’s shout finally alerted

but it was too late. With no options

did was pay her back the same

didn’t feel the expected pain. Instead, I heard Laurel cry

The sharp

my

sharp edge had cut deep into

instantly. My heart