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.”

“Worked with me for less than a

asked, slurping her bubble tea as we watched from our car outside the

inside with Rebecca and Thalia, all of them in

the station doors. “Whatever issues they have, he’s still her

tapioca pearl. “Nah,

She’s gotta look

eyes still fixed on the

lessons from Rachel,” Astrid said, her mouth twisting. “Maybe then she’d

saw Rachel’s death records in Sydney,” I said, taking a sip of

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

Laurel died, they both immediately quit and disappeared from New

widened, “They quit? Just like

what caught my attention. They vanished completely after resigning,” I nodded, studying the station entrance.

he’s the one who had her

long sip of my tea.

froze for a second before nodding quickly, ‘Damn… I never thought

phone is true, she had more reason than anyone to want Laurel dead,” she reasoned. “Laurel didn’t

woke up, if Laurel exposed everything, any chance with Blake would’ve been toast,” Astrid continued. “Rachel

toward the station. ‘I never imagined Rachel could

closer than we were. I was the outsider, trying to fit in

to really be part of your circle, but there were always memories

accident, I was grieving too, but focused on helping you through it. Her voice grew quieter. “I

I grabbed her hand

mean something

wouldn’t have gotten past my insecurities

discovered racing,

have found my way to jewelry