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?”

you this – my persistence was worthless. I 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

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froze as shock filled

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else cause this

a hammer. As the Parker heiress, I’d

bit my lip, watching as Audrey turned to leave with Astrid and Rachel. My

“Let

voice. “You know

“The old man even

might be more important

If he sees you fighting with Audrey, he’ll

Laurel’s words were stoking my anger. William’s favoritism toward Audrey had

comments were

continuous prodding, something in me

charged at Audrey from behind. The blade caught the light as I

nothing to us. Why should I let her get away with this? I’m Thalia Parker! Even if I killed her, what would happen?

high. The crowd gasped as I swung the knife

I shrieked, my voice wild with

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and Thalia’s shout finally alerted me. I turned, but

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

completely! I thought. All I did was pay her back the

my eyes shut tight, I didn’t feel the expected pain. Instead, I heard Laurel cry out:

The sharp

opened my eyes in

edge had cut deep into his palm, and blood

instantly. My heart seemed to