The Queen They Buried

Chapter 29

After dealing with the Wilson family, Alvin took his team out to celebrate the new addition. He even paid for the whole dinner himself.

Things were cheerful on Aubree’s side, but at the Wilsons, the mood was downright grim.

Everyone was there except Trevor, who was off filming and couldn’t make it back.

Then Bryan laid out everything that had happened with Aubree over the past few days.

Alice snapped immediately, “Is Aubree trying to turn the world upside down now? She actually talked back to you?”

As a mother, what Alice cared about wasn’t that her daughter was out there with no home-it was that her daughter had the nerve to argue with her eldest brother.

Ronald didn’t bother hiding his annoyance. He sneered. “She’s grown pretty bold, hasn’t she? Last time at the hospital, didn’t she say she wanted to cut ties with us?”

Ronald honestly thought Aubree had come crawling back in a few days. Who knew she had it in her to keep going?

Ronald gritted his teeth. “When did she get so out of control?”

to everyone blaming and criticizing Aubree, not

to ask-did Aubree really do anything wrong? What exactly did

I were Aubree, I wouldn’t have lasted a day. But she lived

the most out of all the brothers, had already been furious when he heard Aubree refused to ghostwrite for her. If he could teleport, he would’ve

it because you guys gave her money behind my back? Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have been able to rent a place and

had only found out after sending his assistant to check on things that Aubree had moved into a tiny apartment in

she had cash on her, it had to be from the pocket money someone

than that gift we gave when she first got home, we were worried she’d waste money, so

added right away, “Why would I give her money?”

wasn’t there, but he was always the busiest. Even though he was closest with

eyes turned toward him, Emery let out a bitter laugh. “I didn’t give her

stay at home, plus that card. So he never

kids-Carmen included-used to get a seven-figure monthly allowance before they started working. Now that they had their own careers, even Carmen’s personal account never dropped below

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eyes went wide. She asked, “If she didn’t have money, how’d she rent a