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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.

warm

breathing, her small chest

climbing into the ambulance while pressing a cloth against a nasty knife wound on his arm. “Just one, though. She’ll

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

The bodyguard’s laugh was empty, his eyes cold. “Not that

pulled away from the curb. The sirens wailed overhead while I tried to make sense of everything.

happened?” I finally asked, barely audible over

as the paramedic cleaned

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

surprised. “You knew about

‘For a while now.”

Forces, then private security for about ten years. He talked like he was giving a job interview while getting stitched up. “Blake paid me crazy money last

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

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

out their game. Then your kid wanted garden time,

friend.” He shrugged. “I was farther back, looked dangerous, so

– they took

had Parker plates. Guards waved them through like they belonged there.”

a kidnapping? And

many people who could command Parker Group resources or get company cars

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A paramedic pulled it from his pocket

“Might be

blood turning to ice when I

other person besides

before

answering my texts? Michael said you were resting, but

Audrey’s POV

does this have to do with me?

switched to a concerned tone.

needed to know. “It was

the dots sooner. Who else had access to Parker Group vehicles? Who could get past company security without

–

public scene while her hired thugs grabbed Emma.

defensively. “When your daughter was kidnapped, I was arguing with you and Adrian in the

nothing to do with any

help but laugh bitterly.

Emma was kidnapped, did I? How are you

quiet except for her heavy

my friend who’d been through so much. I would’ve done anything to prevent her from

breath.

I will get to the bottom of Emma’s kidnapping. Right now,

happens to him, you can forget your wedding. You’ll be too busy dealing

hung up before

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

out just wanting ransom for the girl, but once they recognized Mr. Parker was there to rescue her, they made him trade

even hesitate

paid. If me and the

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

cutting her

Rachel’s POV

phone, stunned. “How could this

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Blake? This wasn’t the

dropped my phone and rushed downstairs from the second

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