Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 271

Audrey’s POV

A phone’s shrill ring dragged me from deep sleep. I blindly reached out, grabbed it, and hit answer without checking who was

calling.

“Hello?” My voice was rough with sleep.

After a brief silence came an ear-splitting shriek. “Who the hell is this?”

“Why do you have Blake’s phone?” The woman’s voice rose with each word. “It’s barely eight in the morning! What are you doing together at this hour?”

I blinked, suddenly wide awake as I recognized Laurel’s voice.

“You sound half-asleep! You bitch! How dare you steal my man!”

I panicked and hung up, putting the phone down and mentally kicking myself.

Great job, Audrey. Just brilliant.

I’ve been so careful to keep up the illusion I’m dead – keeping my phone off, only using that old phone to talk to Felix occasionally. And

now I answer Blake’s phone like an idiot.

I glanced over at Blake, who was still sleeping soundly. For a guy with normally razor-sharp senses, he seemed completely

undisturbed by the noise.

That’s weird, I thought. After being blinded five years ago and then the whole vegetative state thing, Blake barely sleeps at all. Usually if I so much as breathe too loud, he wakes up.

The phone was blaring and Laurel was screeching like a banshee… how is he still asleep?

The phone started ringing again. Laurel’s name lit up the screen. After a moment’s hesitation, I nudged Blake’s shoulder.

“Miss Rose is calling,” I said.

opened immediately. He took the phone from my hand without

his voice

called you, and some woman answered! Who is she?

just rolled out of bed,” Laurel continued, her

someone behind my back?”

answering. “It was just the cleaning lady. She answered when

have another woman?” he continued, his voice dripping with sweetness. “If you’re upset, I’ll come to the hospital today and stay with you.

but feel disgusted. Less than twenty-four hours ago, I was explaining to him how Laurel was faking her illness. Now he was rushing to comfort her like

actually thought he might

an awkward smile and slipped out of

Blake’s POV

The scent of warm milk and

Audrey left, I woke up to this smell almost every morning. I stood there, oddly transfixed. After she was gone, this place just felt…

this again after almost a

This is what home feels like. This

dining table. She noticed

the remaining steps and joined

you manage to

“But I won’t be coming back here for the

immediately

pretty eager to get rid

don’t want to see you,” she said. “It’s just that Snow and I are used to

“Don’t forget that this is our marital home. This property is under my name. What do you mean

with an edge to her voice, “do you even remember how often you came here when we were married? All those nights you didn’t come home, it was just Snow keeping me company. So yeah, we

over and we remarry,” I said firmly,

take this. Eat it on the way if

warm milk and sandwich she’d prepared, then picked up Snow and headed upstairs

there watching her leave, annoyed at

myself. When

that penthouse near the office. When work got crazy, I’d just

come back once a week, sometimes only

disappeared upstairs, I picked up

in my car after breakfast, I was about to start the engine when my phone rang. Thalia’s name appeared

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