Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 415

Audrey’s POV

“What do you think? Rachel’s cold laugh cut through the phone.

I lowered my voice. “So Emma and Blake getting hurt that was your doing?”

*Mrs. Knox, why do you always think the worst of me?” She didn’t deny it. “I mean, come on. I wouldn’t hurt a four-year-old kid or my future husband the day before our wedding.”

I stayed quiet, waiting her out.

“I’m heading to the police station to ID Blake’s body,” she said, voice turning playful in a way that made my skin crawl. “Aren’t you even going to check on your daughter?”

“Look, Rachel continued when I didn’t respond. “I know you don’t want to see me. Fine. Just courier Blake’s phone to Parker Group. As his widow, I need to

handle his stuff.”

“Send me the phone and you can keep pretending your kid’s alive. Whatever helps you sleep at night.”

Her voice sharpened. “And quit with the bullshit about giving the phone back to Blake. His body’s literally at the morgue. How exactly would that work?”

‘Don’t mess with me. This is New York. You and Adrian don’t stand a chance.”

The call ended with a sharp click.

I raised an eyebrow and turned to Blake. “She wants your phone.”

“Take it,” he said, handing it over immediately.

I turned the device in my hand. “She’s after your contacts and business connections?”

Blake nodded. ‘She wants Parker Group. Thinks she can step into my shoes and be the female CEO everyone admires.”

slightly. “Worked with me for less than a year and thinks

when they come out?’ Astrid asked, slurping her bubble

Rebecca and Thalia, all of them

probably,” I said, watching the station doors. “Whatever issues they have, he’s still her son. Plus he bankrolls her

tapioca pearl.

and win over his family, right? She’s gotta look completely destroyed if she

point, I admitted, eyes

then she’d have become a Hollywood

death records in Sydney,” I said, taking a sip of my tea. “Things didn’t add

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my straw in the cup. “And the file claimed police negligence

Laurel died, they both immediately quit and disappeared from

eyes widened, “They quit?

attention. They vanished completely after resigning,” I nodded, studying the station

had her arrested. If he wanted her gone,

took another long sip of my

froze for a second before nodding quickly, ‘Damn…

than anyone to want Laurel dead,” she reasoned. “Laurel didn’t just steal her plans – she

exposed everything, any chance with Blake would’ve been toast,” Astrid continued.

‘I never

in her eyes. “I always thought you two were closer than we were. I was the

times to really be part of your circle, but there were

through it. Her voice grew quieter. “I

I grabbed her hand and squeezed it. “You’re important

did mean something different to me

have gotten past my insecurities after my

never have discovered

wouldn’t even have found my way