Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 269

Laurel’s POV

Mom spooned soup into my mouth while we sat in suffocating silence.

“Laurel,” she finally asked, setting the spoon down, “that woman who helped you fake your illness is really gone?”

“Obviously,” I snapped. “Why else would I have Dr. Evans scrambling for another terminal patient overnight?”

I tapped my fingers against the sheets, anxiety building. This situation was turning into a disaster. The new patient’s data might not convince Blake for long.

This replacement has gastric cancer too, but she’s not as far along. The numbers won’t match exactly. If Blake starts examining the data…

“I still don’t understand,” Mom sighed. “Why fake being sick at all? You saved Blake’s life. Even without an illness, shouldn’t his heart be yours?”

I shot her a cold look. “His heart? Mine? If he truly didn’t care about Audrey, would he ignore his dying fiancée to search for her

body? Without this illness, he would’ve already – ”

“Already what?”

nearly burned my tongue on

I mumbled, covering my mouth. “When

Mom. “Around the time you mentioned I care about Audrey. Didn’t

you going to say without your illness,

what I meant,” I

what?” He continued feeding me. “I wasn’t just searching for Audrey. I was looking for Rachel too. She’s your sister, after

in his tone felt off, but I couldn’t

said, feeling

to Mom. “Don’t you have things to

errands to run.” Mom

door behind her, leaving

darling, my sister and

soup aside. “The rescue team mentioned sharks in that

couldn’t help a slight

at my hands.

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as his arms wrapped around