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.”

grip only tightened. After a few attempts, they worked around it,

“It’s a little girl.”

at the ambulance entrance – Blake’s bodyguard, the

the weather instead of standing there covered

I tried to push past the paramedic toward him, panic rising in my

at the

a small body.

The paramedic’s

grabbing the sack. “Blake, let go!” I shouted, not

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magic, his arms relaxed. The paramedics jaws dropped as they watched his

nap at home. I checked her quickly for injuries but found none. Despite all the blood on Blake and his bodyguard, not a single drop had touched

but still does what you say. You must be special

gave me a curious

with a bitter half-smile that felt like it might crack my

warm and soft. “Emma? Sweetie,

steady breathing, her small chest rising

ambulance while pressing a cloth against a nasty knife wound

a seat and examined the wound. “Jesus. What happened

empty, his eyes cold.

sirens wailed overhead while I tried to make sense of everything. Emma’s small weight in

I finally asked, barely audible over the

the paramedic cleaned his cut.

to follow me. I saw you in the hotel security footage

“You knew

‘For a while now.”

ten years. He talked like he was giving a job interview while getting stitched up. “Blake paid me crazy money last month to keep an eye on you

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

his arm. “This kidnapping wasn’t random. They’d been planning it, watching for a chance. Knew your schedule

game. Then your kid wanted garden time, and they jumped