Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 406

Audrey’s POV

Blood on marble. That’s what registered first – Blake’s blood dripping onto the polished Parker Group lobby floor. Medical personnel rushed his stretcher through the entrance from the parking garage, their movements urgent.

What’s happening?

Didn’t Michael just tell me Blake was resting?

Why is he being carried out covered in blood?

How did he get injured?

My brain couldn’t process what my eyes were seeing. Blake Parker – covered in blood, unconscious, his face ghostly pale against the crimson stains. I ran forward without thinking.

“What happened?” I grabbed the nearest paramedic’s arm. “What’s wrong with him?”

The medical personnel barely looked up, focused on moving. “We don’t know.”

His colleague glanced at my panicked face. “You family?”

“I… I am.” The lie came easy when it mattered. My voice betrayed more worry than I wanted to show.

“Good. Come with us then. We might need someone to sign for blood transfusions or emergency surgery.”

I followed them out to the waiting ambulance, my stomach in knots, mind racing with possibilities.

Inside the ambulance, I pressed myself against the wall, watching them work on Blake. They hooked him up to monitors and slipped an oxygen mask over his face. His skin looked ghostly under the harsh ambulance lights, his breathing irregular and shallow.

What caught my eye was the burlap sack clutched against his chest. Even unconscious, his arms locked around it like a vise, protecting whatever was inside despite his injuries.

“What’s with the death grip?” A paramedic tugged at Blake’s arms. “He won’t let go of whatever’s in there.”

only tightened. After a few attempts, they worked around it, finding ways to connect equipment

“It’s a little girl.”

stood at the ambulance entrance – Blake’s bodyguard, the one I’d seen in the hotel

at the shape,” he said, like he was discussing the weather instead of standing there covered in blood. “That’s

push past the paramedic toward him, panic

at

outline of a small body. My heart slammed

kid?” The

“Blake, let go!” I

Спарте

his arms relaxed. The paramedics jaws dropped as they watched his grip loosen at just

I checked her quickly for injuries but found none. Despite all the blood on Blake and his bodyguard,

the paramedic muttered, watching Blake’s now-slack arms. “Guy’s out cold but still

me a curious look.

that felt like it might crack my

touched Emma’s cheek, her skin warm and

Just steady breathing, her small chest rising and falling

bodyguard said, climbing into the ambulance while pressing a cloth against a nasty knife wound on his arm. “Just

into a seat and examined the wound.

was empty, his eyes cold. “Not that they’ll need

Emma closer as the ambulance doors closed and we pulled away from the curb. The sirens wailed overhead while I tried to make sense of everything. Emma’s small weight in my arms was the only thing keeping

happened?” I finally asked, barely audible over

bodyguard winced as the paramedic cleaned his cut. “You recognize

Emma tight. “You’re the guy Blake hired to follow me. I saw you in the hotel security footage

surprised. “You knew about

‘For a while now.”

was giving a job interview while getting stitched up. “Blake paid me crazy money last month to keep an eye

came back to New York, he switched my assignment. Said you could handle yourself here, but wanted me watching

as the paramedic dug something from his arm. “This kidnapping wasn’t random. They’d been planning

kid wanted garden time, and