Chapter 419

Audrey’s POV

No one answered. They just stared at me with confused expressions, exchanging uncomfortable glances. My heart pounded harder with each passing second

of silence.

An elderly man with white hair finally stepped closer, squinting at my phone. He studied Astrid’s picture carefully, then shook his head.

“Don’t think it was her, but it all happened so fast,” he said. “Everything was chaos…”

I asked several more people, but got only shrugs and blank looks. Nobody could tell me anything useful.

The white-haired man thought for a moment, then pointed down the street. “The mortuary van went that way. Probably to the funeral home in Lower Manhattan. If you’re worried, you should head there now while you can.”

I bit my lip, thanked him, and hurried to flag down another taxi. Every second felt like eternity as I clutched Astrid’s bloodied necklace.

*Manhattan South Funeral Home,” I told the driver. “Hurry, please.”

Inside the taxi, my entire body shook. I gripped the necklace so hard my knuckles turned white, the metal digging into my palm. Sweat soaked my hands as panic swelled in my chest.

Astrid can’t die. She just can’t…

My heart felt like it was being roasted over an open flame. Even when I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I hadn’t felt this desperate.

With trembling hands, I called Blake again.

‘Can you help me…” My voice broke.

“What’s happening?” Blake asked immediately.

‘I need you to check traffic cameras,” I managed. “I just found Astrid’s necklace in a pool of blood at an accident scene.”

I stared at the silver pendant, now smeared with drying blood.

*People said a girl died on the spot and was taken to a funeral home,” I continued, fighting to keep my voice steady. “I’m heading there now.”

“Can you check the cameras? I need to know if it was Astrid who…” I couldn’t finish.

firmly. “Astrid’s tough. Which funeral home are

“Lower Manhattan.”

the footage and meet you there,

“Thanks,” I said quietly.

enemies, Blake reassured me.

she doing when you last saw

mom and sister,” I answered. “She wanted to see how broken

his voice as my everything.

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Chapter 419

loving him,

now, hearing Blake’s calm assurance, I

Felix was helping someone out of the back seat – a man in black clothes, hat and mask covering his face.

of a wheelchair, Felix’s assistant handed him crutches. Blake took them

stopped and balanced himself, raising one hand

he

looked him up and

knows Blake Parker as

know

mouth twitched. “Not even my mother, sister,

mention of Rebecca and Thalia. If Astrid had been following them and

between us. “Come on. The sooner we get in

and nodded. Despite my dread, I had

Rebecca and Thalia have to be behind

terrified of seeing her

once. I

we walked down the corridor, I asked quietly, “Did

on his crutches.

“But?”

the accident happened,” he said. “We couldn’t find anything except the mortuary van

don’t think it was Astrid, or

be

“They don’t have the skills to delete surveillance footage. They don’t know anyone who

and faced him, eyes cold. “Astrid was

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