Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 249

He grew up with the finest things. This cheap metal?” She held it up to the light. He’d never touch something so worthless.”

Laurel raised her hand to throw it away. I grabbed her wrist before she could, my fingers tightening around it.

“You’re hurting me,” she winced.

“What are you doing?” I asked, voice low.

She tried to pull away. “Throwing trash where it belongs.‘

“This tacky thing is offensive to look at,” she continued, ‘Astrid brought it to humiliate us.”

Her words hit me like a physical blow. I searched her face for any sign of recognition. Her eyes showed only disgust, not a flicker of awareness of what she was holding.

When I’d given her the pendant five years ago, I’d specifically told her it was from my mother. Now Laurel was calling it garbage.

“You really don’t recognize this at all?” I asked, keeping my voice steady.

She started to speak, “Why would I before stopping mid–sentence.

Looking down at the pendant again, her expression changed. “I don’t remember…” She bit her lip.

“Audrey asked me to return it to you.” Astrid cut in, her voice cold. “When I met Audrey four years ago, she always wore this pendant. She told me it came from someone she loved more than anyone.”

wore it after marrying you. But when you woke up, she gave it to me for safekeeping. She didn’t

hiding it because she didn’t want you knowing she’d once loved someone else. Yesterday I learned the truth. This pendant was from you. The person she loved more than anyone… was always

My mind

Laurel had somehow ended up with Audrey? And she’d been wearing it

that be possible? And why would

said I was the man Audrey loved most. But that couldn’t be right. Audrey told me about her first love the man from Pinehaven

of this

Astrid said. “Audrey wanted me to return this to you. She’s giving back your mother’s pendant and with

about? Yes, this was my mother’s. But five years

“How did Audrey

from?”

yanked free. “Ask your precious Miss Rose about

She’s divorced you now, cut all ties. She

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Chapter 249

Laurel’s POV

stood on stage, staring at the pendant in my

plan. Rachel never mentioned it in any of

Everything was unraveling.

wouldn’t