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.”

to text the driver, then sorted through work emails. Even with me gone from Sydney, my sister’s company Q-elegant kept

Mrs. Knox.

before me, Rebecca was gone, the guards had left, and

studied my face, “Are you Audrey

at her, caught

no one else here,” she said, glancing around. “Everyone’s

faced me directly. “William’s body has been taken away. Henry’s inside with Charles planning the funeral. We’re alone.

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Chapter 439

if you were just Audrey’s sister, you wouldn’t know everything about her past so perfectly. You wouldn’t understand all her relationships

me and Audrey that we were the two young people

kept that promise. I never came after Audrey myself. Sometimes I couldn’t control Olivia when

why you left me

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

before her

“After the funeral, I’ll make Olivia apologize properly

bother. I already dealt with Olivia

proper funeral,” I said. “Make

William’s room. “You

Henry said, appearing behind Elizabeth. “Let’s

past Elizabeth without another glance, following Henry

kept his focus forward, quickly catching

that shipwreck took her only brother. After Leo died, Elizabeth dropped twenty pounds from grief and couldn’t eat for a month.

cared about his money, he’d cling to life with his last breath just to spite them. So whenever he got sick, Elizabeth would immediately start fighting with Rebecca over his assets. Childish, but it worked for her

threatened to blow his fortune on crap, he wouldn’t get up to argue with her. It

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

neutral. “Don’t thank me. I only came because Astrid

turned to me. ‘Did William

shook my head.

the notepad from my purse. “This is what William wrote at

as he took it, examining the shaky

been bothering me. “Henry, you said after the

Blake on the beach… Did she