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

asked, slurping her bubble tea as we watched

with Rebecca and Thalia,

they have, he’s still her son. Plus he bankrolls her

chewed a tapioca pearl. “Nah,

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

admitted, eyes still fixed on the

twisting. “Maybe then she’d have become a

in Sydney,” I said, taking a sip of my tea. “Things

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type to feel guilty enough for suicide. I swirled my straw in the cup. “And the file claimed

they both immediately quit and disappeared from New

widened, “They quit? Just like

nodded, studying the station

frowned. “But he’s the one who had her arrested. If he

another long sip of my tea. “What if

second before nodding quickly, ‘Damn…

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

Blake would’ve been toast,” Astrid continued. “Rachel would have been desperate to

heavily, looking toward the station. ‘I never imagined Rachel could be

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

really be part of your circle, but there were always

but focused on helping you through it. Her voice grew quieter. “I even wondered sometimes… why couldn’t it have been me

about?” I grabbed her hand and squeezed

mean something different to me back

I wouldn’t have gotten past my insecurities after my birth parents

discovered

found my way to