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?”

there listening to everyone blaming and criticizing Aubree,

really do anything wrong? What exactly

thought, ‘This house feels suffocating. If I were Aubree, I wouldn’t have

on Carmen 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 gone straight to Aubree and given her a good

back? Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have been able to rent a place and would’ve come crawling back

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

card had already been cut off. If she had cash on her, it had to be from the pocket

gave her anything. Other than that gift we gave when she first got home, we

away, “Why would I give her money?” The disgust

he was closest with Carmen, he’d

all eyes turned toward him, Emery let out a bitter

thought about it before. Aubree had food and a place to stay

they started working. Now

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asked, “If she didn’t have money,