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.”

woke up, she gave

slightly. “I thought she was hiding it because she didn’t want you knowing she’d once loved someone else. Yesterday I learned the truth.

word hit me like a hammer. My mind raced to

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

that be possible? And why would she claim I’d given it

couldn’t be right. Audrey told me about her first love the

of this

all I came to say,” Astrid said. “Audrey wanted me to return this to you. She’s giving back your mother’s pendant and with

you talking about? Yes, this was my mother’s. But five years ago, I

anger surged through me. “How did Audrey get it? How did

from?”

free. “Ask your precious Miss Rose about

now, cut all ties. She

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Chapter 249

Laurel’s POV

I stood on stage, staring at the pendant in my

part of my plan. Rachel never mentioned it in any

Everything was unraveling.

I wouldn’t