The Queen They Buried

Chapter 90

Chapter 90

Everyone at the table was caught off guard when Bryan stormed off. After a stunned silence, Alice snapped, “That damn troublemaker Aubree! She’s even led Bryan astray!”

Daxton’s face darkened. ‘I never thought Bryan would treat Carmen like this, and now even Emery has changed. Has Aubree put some kind of spell on them both?’ he thought, frustration and suspicion clouding his mind.

Carmen couldn’t believe Bryan would storm out right in front of their parents. She lowered her eyes, her hand clenched tightly under the table. She thought, ‘I’ve worked so hard for over a decade, and Aubree’s only been back for what, three years? In just three years, she’s managed to steal my place. If I give her any more time, is she going to completely replace me?”

Carmen shuddered as she pictured the Wilson family scorning and loathing her. Her face, lowered to hide her expression, twisted with fear and anger. She thought fiercely, ‘I’ll never let this happen to me!’

“Mom, Dad,” Carmen asked softly, her voice trembling with uncertainty, “does Bryan… does he hate me now? And Emery… is he still mad at me because I made his esports team lose?” Since Bryan and Emery had stopped supporting her, she thought to herself, “Time to try a different approach.’

The instant her words left her lips, everyone at the table exchanged glances, their expressions shifting all at once.

They thought, ‘We were so caught up blaming Bryan that we nearly let Emery off the hook!’

a smirk. “If it weren’t

grew even heavier. Ronald, whose word carried the most

kindness Carmen showed him,” Daxton sneered. He’d personally witnessed

angrily, ‘Carmen was even blamed by those guys from Emery’s

Emery really sides with Aubree over some

in reassurance and said softly, “Come on, Emery wouldn’t

Emery can’t even tell

slide that you’re siding with Aubree, what’s truly outrageous is that ever since Carmen was set up by that wretch, you haven’t even bothered to show up or say a single

time, even though Emery was her own son, she felt he had truly crossed the

family who ever took Aubree’s side, but she felt that he couldn’t

act like this?’ Alice thought, her heart

give him a piece of my mind!” With just that one sentence, Carmen immediately turned the

wonder why Bryan had left. All he

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