Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 357

Audrey’s POV

Charles met my eyes, his expression heavy with something unspoken.

“After what happened ten months ago, Blake kept your passing from his grandfather,” he said quietly. “He was afraid the news would kill William. But the old man found out anyway.”

Charles’s shoulders sagged. “When he learned about your death, he almost died himself.”

I leaned against the wall, feeling suddenly cold.

“Everyone came back – Thalia and Olivia from boarding school, every Parker family member and friend. The doctors gave up hope. We all thought it was over.”

I closed my eyes. My chest tightened. So William’s health collapsed because of me. Again.

“In what we thought were his final moments, he just kept calling for you. Said he wanted to join you wherever you were.”

I bit my lip hard enough to taste copper.

“Then Rachel Hayes burst into the emergency room.” Charles shook his head. “She grabbed his hand and told him she was you – that you weren’t dead after all. That brought him back somehow.”

“But his mind hasn’t been the same since,” he added, lightly touching my shoulder. “He doesn’t recognize faces or voices anymore. He only remembers feelings, associations, who people were to him.”

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habits, your past to convince him she was you. She

favorite visitor.”

with William for decades. You’ve seen everything between us and the

won’t deny who I am to you. But as for

said quickly. “To everyone else,

asked, “But why are you visiting William today? What’s

at the mall, and Blake brought me here to say sorry to the

elder.”

smile. “I also knocked Rebecca into some garbage on our way

back. “When you’ve died once, you come

Charles stared, speechless.

shoulder. “Keep my secret, especially from

equipment beeping steadily. William looked tiny in his bed, nothing like the commanding presence I remembered. His eyes were closed,

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girl’s,” he said weakly. “Don’t be

at the ceiling, eyes cloudy. “She’s young. Taking care of a dying

moved to his bedside,

was, but I can’t

in his mouth felt like a physical

years with Blake,” he said, voice tinged with

stood silently,