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.”

and leaned against the wall as Henry walked into William’s room. I pulled out my phone to text the driver, then sorted through work emails. Even with me gone from

Mrs. Knox.

Rebecca was gone, the guards had left, and we

studied my face, “Are you Audrey

her,

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

been taken away. Henry’s inside with Charles planning

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

the two young people he cared about most. He

wouldn’t,” she continued. “All these years, I kept that promise. I never came after Audrey myself. Sometimes I couldn’t control Olivia when

eyes held mine. “That’s why you left me and Olivia

raised an eyebrow, took a deep breath, and put my phone away. “Kind of weird, isn’t it? Finding out dead

me for several seconds before her face relaxed with understanding. “So

I’ll make Olivia apologize properly for the crap she pulled

“Don’t bother. I already dealt with Olivia

a proper funeral,” I

glanced past her toward William’s room. “You

finished,” Henry said, appearing behind Elizabeth. “Let’s

past Elizabeth without another glance, following Henry to

quiet “Goodbye” but kept his focus forward, quickly catching up to walk beside

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

only cared about his money, he’d cling to life with his last breath just to spite them. So whenever he got sick, Elizabeth

crap, he wouldn’t get up to argue

you hadn’t shown up today, things wouldn’t have

“Don’t thank me. I

‘Did William

my head.

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

he took it, examining the

after the shipwreck, my sister saved you

beach… Did she know who Blake