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Chapter 406

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

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 one, though. She’ll

paramedic pushed him into a seat and examined the wound. “Jesus. What happened out

in worse shape. The bodyguard’s laugh was empty,

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

I finally asked,

winced as the paramedic cleaned his cut. “You

Blake hired to follow me. I

surprised. “You knew about

‘For a while now.”

job interview while getting stitched up. “Blake paid me crazy money last month to

my assignment. Said you could handle

paramedic dug something from his arm. “This kidnapping wasn’t random. They’d been planning it, watching for a

them early but couldn’t figure out their game. Then your kid wanted garden time, and

after Hartford’s guys and your friend.” He shrugged. “I was farther back, looked dangerous, so they left

dropped. “Wait – they took Emma to

waved them through like they belonged there.” Jett

Blake had Jett protecting Emma, why would he arrange a kidnapping? And if those cars got into

weren’t many people who could command Parker Group resources or get company cars past security.

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pulled it from his pocket and handed it

it, he said. “Might be important with his

ice when I saw the caller

person besides Blake who could order staff

connected before

sugary sweet. “Why aren’t you answering my texts? Michael

Audrey’s POV

didn’t what does this have to do with me? Your daughter – Rachel blurted out,

tone. “Your daughter was kidnapped? What

needed to know. “It was you

to Parker Group

–

intercepting us on the street to create a public

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

do with any kidnapping

but laugh bitterly. “Miss Hayes, why so

did I? How are you so certain you were arguing

quiet except for her heavy

ago, that panicked breathing would’ve worried me. I’d have felt protective of my friend who’d been through so much. I would’ve done anything to

took a deep breath. “Miss Hayes. Out of

and I will get to the bottom of Emma’s

happens to him, you can forget your wedding. You’ll be too busy dealing with charges from me, Adrian, Blake,

before she

called right back. Jett frowned, took the phone from my

hired were vicious,” he said coldly. “They started out just wanting ransom for the girl, but once they recognized Mr.

even hesitate to

the kid to death after getting paid. If me and the other security guys hadn’t fought

kill the

up, cutting her off

Rachel’s POV

phone,

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kidnappers hurt Blake? This

and rushed downstairs from the second

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