The Queen They Buried

Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Aubree hadn’t been home for a week. The house stayed just as quiet as ever.

Only Bryan and Emery had gone to the school twice, trying to raise hell.

At home, as long as Carmen was around, no one even mentioned Aubree’s name.

Emery never thought the reason Bryan finally decided to go get Aubree back was to have her ghostwrite Carmen’s work.

When Bryan found out from his assistant that Aubree hadn’t reached out to him once, his first reaction wasn’t concern. He wasn’t worried something might’ve happened to her. No, he was pissed. How dare she?

Luckily, the police had shared some information. In the surveillance footage, Aubree could be seen heading to a park after being kicked out of the village housing.

Late at night, a Rolls-Royce stopped in front of the park for a while. After that, Aubree was always seen coming and going from school in a luxury car.

In the last bit of the footage, Aubree first went to Forith Bay.

Forith Bay was a private residential area, easy to recognize. Aubree had barely gone in when a man showed up and took her to one of the riverside villas.

police gave me the exact address of that villa,” Emery said, looking at the info on his phone. He couldn’t stop Bryan, so the only

After leaving the Wilsons’ so-called protection, she realized-life outside was

gently at Bryan’s sleeve. “Bryan, do you think Aubree

face changed instantly. He muttered, ‘How can I

assume Aubree’s becoming rebellious, but the surveillance suggests she

pale. It wasn’t that he thought Aubree was shameful or anything, it was the idea

much Emery couldn’t breathe. It was his fault.

on the third floor training room of GOD’s Fury, Aubree had already wiped the

in awe. He asked, “Captain, between you and Phoenix,

you guess why she’s

his head with a sheepish grin. He almost forgot about Alvin’s strict recruitment standards. From the looks of it, not only had he lost to Phoenix-he’d probably lost more than

idea the Wilsons

year ago and turned it into the team’s training base,” Bryan said,

an esports team base? Seriously? With a bunch of guys?

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here?’

gasped and covered her mouth. “So…. she’s been living here all this time? With a

Carmen had said what he was already thinking, Bryan’s face

is not like that,”