Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO novel Chapter 358

Chapter 358

A sob escaped before I could stop it.

William went silent, turning toward the sound. “You, you…”

I wiped my face, trying to smile. “William, it’s me. I’m back.”

I couldn’t hold back anymore. I rushed to him, throwing my arms around his frail body.

“William, it’s Audrey!” My voice broke. “I’m here. I heard everything.”

Tears ran down my face. “I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have stayed away so long. I thought you might forget me as time passed, but I never imagined – ”

I never thought he nearly died because of me.

I never dreamed his dying wish would be seeing me marry Blake again.

What have I done to deserve such care from an old man with no blood relation to me?

Blake’s POV

I could hear her crying through the half-open door.

“Mr. Parker, you really have a knack,” Charles said quietly, glancing at my wheelchair. “If you hadn’t announced your wedding to Rachel, Mrs. Sinclair would never have returned to see your grandfather.”

I watched her through the doorway, her tears falling onto my grandfather’s hands.

Charles sighed. “Even with her new identity, she still cares for you. Why else rush back from Australia when she heard about your marriage? She must still have feelings for you.”

“Her return has nothing to do with me,” I said, frowning.

She wouldn’t be here if this wedding wasn’t for Grandfather. If his life wasn’t slipping away, she’d never have come back.

I could see her face clearly the shock as my grandfather failed to recognize her, the pain that followed.

Maybe I mattered to the old Audrey. But to this new person she’s become, I’m less than nothing.

My chest feels like it’s being cut with a dull blade. Slow. Deep. Relentless.

I found myself staring at the woman who was once mine.

Audrey’s POV

“William… I’m too late,” I whispered, clutching him.

William patted my back gently. “Young lady, does your family have the same illness as me?”

I pulled back, staring at him in shock. “Willam, you…”

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Chapter 358

“I don’t know you,’ he said softly, reaching to wipe my tears, “but I can tell you must love your family very much. You’ve come to the wrong room, though. You’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

His eyes held nothing but polite kindness. Not a flicker of recognition.

I stared at him, my mind blank. “William, what are you talking about?”

“I really don’t know you,” he repeated.

A weak smile crossed his thin face as he looked at me like I was a total stranger. “You have the wrong room.”

“My granddaughter isn’t nearly this attentive. She barely has time for an old man these days.”

My breath caught in my throat.

I’d run through so many scenarios of this moment in my head. Him crying. Him yelling at me for disappearing. Even him ordering

me to leave and never come back.

But not this. Never this. Him not knowing me at all.

I gripped his arm, my voice breaking. “How can you not know me?”

“I’m Audrey! I was married to Blake! We spent so many afternoons together. You should remember me!”

William’s face darkened at the mention of my name.

He slapped the bed. “That’s ridiculous!”

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