Divorce Me Before Death Takes Me, CEO novel Chapter 383

Chapter 383

Audrey’s POV

I stood in the shower with my eyes closed. Hot water beat against my scalp, washing away egg residue that still smelled like something had died weeks ago. Three rounds of shampoo hadn’t killed the stench.

This morning should have felt like victory. I’d finally confronted the Sinclairs and exposed their lies with solid proof. Instead, I just felt empty.

I grabbed the shampoo again and poured too much into my palm. My nails dug into my scalp as I scrubbed, though the egg was long gone.

The Sinclairs had never been real family, so their betrayal was expected. But Rachel? She’d been my first actual friend. I’d always told myself she abandoned our friendship because I was already “dead” – just moving on with her life. Made sense. I wouldn’t hold that against anyone.

But today showed the truth. Rachel hadn’t cared about me for a long time. She stole my design drafts and accused my “twin” of plagiarism. She sent those girls to ambush me with rotten eggs.

My phone rang through the bathroom door. I shut off the water, wrapped myself in a towel, and padded across the carpet leaving wet footprints.

“Hello?”

‘Come downstairs.” Adrian’s voice sounded different. “Everyone who should be here has arrived.”

I heard crying in the background. “What are you doing?”

“Nothing much. Just making an example. These girls need to be punished in front of whoever sent them. So whoever sent them knows my wife isn’t someone to mess with.”

The crying got louder.

“Don’t do anything stupid,” I said. “I’m coming down now.”

I quickly dried off and threw on whatever clothes were closest. My hair was still dripping as I rushed to the elevator.

The hotel plaza had been cleared of guests. Security guards stood far back, deliberately looking anywhere but at what was happening. I stopped short at what I saw.

The heavy girl and her friends were kneeling in a row with their faces covered in egg. But that wasn’t what made me sick. They each had cuts on their hands with thin streams of blood dripping.

Rachel stood nearby, white as a sheet. Adrian stood in front of the girls looking completely calm.

The only sounds were the wind and the girls’ quiet moaning.

‘Please stop, Rachel begged, reaching for Adrian’s hands. “They’re just kids…”

Adrian laughed. “If I spare them, will you spare my wife?”

Rachel’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. She spotted me approaching and looked relieved.

After a moment, she straightened up. “I don’t know what you mean.”

“Really?” I walked up to them. “Is it that you don’t know, or you don’t want to admit it?”

Rachel spun around, startled by my voice.

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Chapter 383

You knew exactly what happened as soon as Adrian called,” I said coldly. “Now you’re pretending you don’t know what these girls did to me?”

Rachel’s POV

I turned toward her voice instinctively.

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