Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO

Chapter 439

Audrey’s POV

Henry stared at Rebecca’s crumpled form on the floor. ‘How could she not know who fathered her child?”

I glanced down at the once-formidable woman now reduced to muttering incoherently. Against my better judgment, I felt a flicker of pity.

“Maybe she didn’t know herself,” I said. “Leo never cared for her. Their marriage was empty. That one night she got pregnant was probably their only time together.’

I watched Rebecca rock back and forth. “Now our DNA tests prove Thalia has zero Parker blood. Leo wasn’t her father.”

Henry’s eyebrows shot up.

“And that’s not all I told her,” I added. “When Leo took Blake on that cruise five years ago, he was meeting someone from Leonora Sterling’s family. He’d received a letter from the Australian Parkers.”

Henry studied me with fresh interest. “So beating Thalia was revenge on her, and breaking Rebecca’s mind was revenge on her?”

I nodded with a small smile. “Three years living with them taught me exactly where to aim.”

“You’re nothing like your sister,” Henry remarked.

My smile remained, but my eyes fixed on the wall ahead. “I used to be.”

Down the hall, Charles spoke quietly to a teary-faced Elizabeth while Henry and I stood in silence broken only by Rebecca’s muttering.

“What now?” Henry asked. “Staying to help with arrangements or going to see Blake?”

I hesitated, glancing toward William’s room before sighing. “With my current identity, I shouldn’t stay.”

“I’m officially the adopted daughter of Leonora Sterling’s sister,” I explained.

Henry let out a dry laugh. “Good point. William tore them apart and drove your adoptive parents out of New York. Your presence at his funeral would start talk that wouldn’t help anyone.”

“Exactly,” I said, trying to mask the bitterness in my voice.

‘Ill say goodbye to Mr. Parker,” Henry said. ‘Wait for me – we’ll visit Blake together.”

out my phone to text the driver, then sorted through work

Mrs. Knox.

Rebecca was gone, the guards had left, and we

studied my face, “Are you

stared at her, caught off

one else here,” she said, glancing around. “Everyone’s

away. Henry’s inside with Charles planning the funeral. We’re alone. Tell me the

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if you were just Audrey’s sister, you wouldn’t know everything about her past

that we were the two young people he cared

came after Audrey myself. Sometimes I couldn’t

why you left me and Olivia alone today,

put my phone away. “Kind of weird, isn’t it? Finding out dead people can

me for several seconds before her face

together. “After the funeral, I’ll make

dismissively. “Don’t bother. I already

a proper funeral,” I said. “Make sure he gets the

William’s room. “You done in

said, appearing behind

without another glance, following Henry to the

Henry offered Elizabeth a quiet “Goodbye” but kept his

pounds from grief and couldn’t eat for a month. Since then, she’s kept her distance from everyone

whenever he got sick, Elizabeth would immediately start fighting

if she threatened to blow his fortune on crap,

said, closing the car door. “If you hadn’t shown up today, things

back in his seat, expression neutral. “Don’t thank me. I only

turned to me. ‘Did William say anything before

shook my head.

notepad from my purse. “This

frowned as he took it,

said after the shipwreck, my sister saved you without thinking twice, then helped

beach… Did she know who Blake was