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.”

less than a year

reddest eyes when they come out?’ Astrid asked, slurping her bubble tea as we watched from our car outside

just gone inside with Rebecca and Thalia, all of

have, he’s still her son. Plus he bankrolls her lifestyle. Losing that

chewed a tapioca pearl. “Nah, my money’s on

his family, right? She’s gotta look completely destroyed if she wants

eyes still fixed

her mouth twisting. “Maybe then she’d have become a Hollywood star instead of ending up dead in

I said, taking a

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

both immediately quit

widened, “They quit? Just like

They vanished completely after resigning,” I nodded, studying the station entrance. “That’s why I think

one who had her arrested. If he wanted her

another long sip of my tea. “What if Rachel

for a second before nodding quickly, ‘Damn…

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

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

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

to me with rare vulnerability in her eyes. “I always thought you two were closer than we were. I was the outsider, trying to fit in with your inside

tried so many times to really be part of your circle, but

grieving too, but focused on helping you through it. Her voice grew quieter. “I even wondered sometimes…

I grabbed her hand and squeezed it.

mean something different to

past my insecurities after my

never have discovered racing, camping,

have found my way to