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.

said, looking at the info on his phone. He couldn’t stop Bryan, so the only thing he could do now was protect Aubree as much as he could

thinking right now, she’d probably laugh out loud. After leaving the Wilsons’ so-called protection, she realized-life outside was

surveillance footage on her phone, hesitating. She tugged gently at Bryan’s sleeve. “Bryan, do you think Aubree would do something

face changed instantly. He

but the surveillance suggests she might

Aubree was shameful or anything, it was the

breathe. It was his

Fury, Aubree had already wiped the floor with everyone except their support. Even the

asked, “Captain, between you and Phoenix,

said, “Why don’t you

scratched 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

game and had no idea the Wilsons were three seconds away from showing up

That villa’s under Alvin’s name. He bought it a year ago and turned it into the team’s

With a bunch of guys?

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here?’

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

he was

is not like that,” Emery