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?”

I’ll tell 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

words echoed

mocking smile froze as shock filled her

Thalia’s POV

through the crowd

about

she wouldn’t have broken that

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they really wronged her. Why else

hammer. As the Parker heiress, I’d never faced

Audrey turned to leave with Astrid and Rachel. My hands clenched into

touching my arm. “Let it go.

lowered her voice. “You know how William

old man even wants Audrey to inherit

eyes, she might be more important than you, his actual

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

could I stay calm after that? Laurel’s words were stoking my anger. William’s favoritism toward Audrey had

were

prodding, something in

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

still family! Now she’s nothing to us. Why should I let her get away with this? I’m

the knife high. The crowd gasped as I swung the knife

shrieked, my voice wild

Audrey’s POV

shout finally alerted me. I turned, but

my eyes. I tried to move, but it was too late. With no

was pay her back the same way she humiliated me years ago. Now she’s trying to

I didn’t feel the expected pain. Instead,

wet hit my nose. The sharp smell

my eyes in

cut deep into his palm, and blood dripped from between his

Blake’s hand instantly. My heart