Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 428

Audrey’s POV

Rachel stormed off, shoving through curious onlookers as she disappeared toward the preparation room. The crowd quickly dispersed, returning to their champagne and gossip.

Henry took another sip of wine. “You went soft on her.”

‘What?’

“After everything she’s done to you,’ he said, swirling his glass, “you still held back. She tried to have you kidnapped, maybe killed, and you just reminded her about ceremony time?”

His eyes studied me. “Still hanging onto that old friendship?”

The question stung. I remembered laughing with Rachel years ago, learning to drive together, planning our futures over cheap beer.

“You still think she ever actually cared about you?” Henry pressed.

I set my glass down. “This isn’t about her. It’s about Blake.”

My eyes drifted to where Blake sat with Jett in a far corner, away from attention.

Blake had been on those crutches too long already. We’d injected him with that medicine almost thirty minutes ago, and he only had about ninety minutes left before it wore off.

I recalled our debate at Thompson mansion. Blake had insisted on walking rather than using his wheelchair.

“Someone on crutches blends in, he’d argued. “People see a guy limping at a wedding, they figure he twisted an ankle. A wheelchair? That grabs attention.”

Felix had reluctantly agreed and practically begged Harrison Clarke for that adrenaline compound to temporarily boost Blake’s circulation.

The doctor had warned us about serious side effects, giving Blake just enough to last two hours time for his dramatic entrance, but not enough to cause permanent damage.

“This has nothing to do with Rachel,” I told Henry firmly. “We’ve got work to do.”

Henry studied my face before nodding silently.

Astrid’s POV

my juice straw while Ryan droned on about various society women and their net worth. His voice faded to background noise as I kept glancing toward Evelyn Knox and Henry Hartford across the

who’d hugged me outside seemed genuinely concerned. And Henry… just thinking about him

triggered a strange feeling. Ryan had pulled me against him, his arm around my

we meet again,’

face that could’ve been carved from stone strong features, deep penetrating eyes,

knew him. My

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me tight, passionate kisses. I couldn’t see his face clearly in these memories, but I remembered the intensity,

your time with my

his grip. “My fiancée is happy with

completely, focusing on me.

I was drowning in his gaze. “I’m… fine, I

I don’t see you for one day, and suddenly you’re engaged to

been my fiancée for years, Ryan interjected. “Since university in Europe. Why else would she work

darkened. ‘Is that

was. Files showed I’d deliberately infiltrated Henry’s company, becoming his closest female associate. Ryan had

now? Why did

deception I’d been part of. I wouldn’t

together since Europe. I did whatever I could to get close to you. It

words felt like poison on my

silent before speaking. “I never knew you

all calculation

by me and

Henry thundered, silencing even

turned back to me. “Was everything between us fake

much about an employee’s betrayal?

an embrace by Evelyn Knox, who

Their obvious familiarity stirred something unpleasant – a feeling I couldn’t name but that made me want

around my wrist. “Pay

Audrey’s POV

immediately fell