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.”

They tried to move his hands, but his grip only tightened. After a few attempts, they worked around it, finding ways to connect equipment without disturbing his hold on the mysterious sack.

“It’s a little girl.”

I jumped at the voice behind me. A blood-covered man stood at the ambulance entrance – Blake’s bodyguard, the one I’d seen in the hotel security footage.

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

“Emma…” I tried to push past the paramedic toward him, panic rising in my chest.

“She’s right there.” He nodded at the sack. “In his arms.”

1 stared at the burlap bundle, now seeing the unmistakable outline of a small body. My heart slammed against my ribs as realization hit me.

“A kid?” The paramedic’s eyes widened.

i lunged forward, grabbing the sack. “Blake, let go!” I shouted, not caring how desperate I sounded.

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Like magic, his arms relaxed. The paramedics jaws dropped as they watched his grip loosen at just the sound of my voice.

I tore open the sack and nearly collapsed. Emma lay inside, sleeping peacefully like she was taking a 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 her. She’d been perfectly protected.

“Damn,” the paramedic muttered, watching Blake’s now-slack arms. “Guy’s out cold but still does what you say. You must be special to him.”

He gave me a curious look. ‘Wife?”

‘Ex,’ I said, with a bitter half-smile that felt like it might crack my face.

Emma’s cheek, her skin warm

small chest rising and

bodyguard said, climbing into the ambulance while pressing a cloth against a

a seat and examined the wound.

bodyguard’s laugh was empty, his eyes cold.

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

happened?” I finally asked,

cleaned

Emma tight. “You’re the guy Blake hired to follow me.

surprised. “You

‘For a while now.”

ten years. He talked like he was giving a job interview

he switched my assignment. Said you could

random. They’d been planning it, watching for a chance. Knew your

out their game. Then your kid

was farther back, looked dangerous,

they took Emma to Parker

plates. Guards waved them through like they belonged there.” Jett frowned. “I told Blake in real-time. He

would he arrange a

Parker Group resources

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A paramedic pulled it from his

“Might be important with his

ice when I saw the caller

person besides Blake who could order staff around or

connected before I

you answering my texts?

Audrey’s POV

this have to do with me? Your daughter – Rachel blurted out, then stopped

tone. “Your daughter was kidnapped?

told me everything I needed to know.

instinctive denial before I’d even explained what happened gave her away completely. I should’ve connected the dots sooner. Who else had access to Parker Group vehicles? Who could get past company security without questions? Who knew exactly when Adrian and I would return to

–

it perfectly – intercepting us on the street to create a public scene while her hired thugs grabbed Emma.

daughter was kidnapped, I was arguing with you and Adrian in the middle of the

nothing to do with any

help but laugh bitterly. “Miss

kidnapped, did I? How are you

went quiet except for her heavy breathing. Caught in her own

have felt protective of my friend who’d been through so much. I would’ve done anything to

deep breath. “Miss

get to the bottom of Emma’s kidnapping.

forget your wedding. You’ll be too busy dealing with charges from me,

before she

back. Jett frowned, took the phone from my hand,

vicious,” he said coldly. “They started out just wanting ransom for the girl, but once they recognized Mr. Parker was there to

didn’t even

stab both him and the kid to death after getting paid. If me and the other security guys hadn’t fought like hell, Parker

fiancée you are, arranging people to kill the man you’re

up, cutting her off

Rachel’s POV

phone, stunned.

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hurt Blake? This wasn’t

rushed downstairs from