The Queen They Buried

Chapter 94

Chapter 94

Emery looked at her, his eyes earnest.

Aubree looked back at him and thought, ‘If you’d said this to me before, I would’ve been over the moon, probably too excited to sleep for days. But now? I feel nothing. If anything, it is almost laughable.

‘Now you put on this act? Where were you when it actually mattered?

‘So what were those three years of suffering for? Was I just a glutton for punishment?

‘Are they seriously trying to lure me back just so they can keep trampling all over me?

‘Like he’d really rush to help just because my startup club lacks anything. Who knows, maybe after all this ‘helping, God’s Fury would just end up being renamed Apex Squad.

As soon as the thought took root in Aubree’s mind, it spiraled out of control. Her previously scornful expression instantly hardened into seriousness.

Aubree shot Emery a guarded look, her whole body tense with suspicion.

‘Didn’t the Wilson family say they wished I’d just die

keep taking turns showing up to find me? If before it was just about keeping Carmen at Rithol Art School, what’s their excuse now, after everything that’s happened? Is Emery really here because they’re

want from me, coming after me one after another? If you’ve got all

as Aubree regarded him with wariness and annoyance. It felt as if a thousand knives were stabbing into his heart, the pain

nothing more than her family, these very people. But now, she cast aside what she once held dear like

urgently, “I genuinely want to help you. Did you see my posts online? You’re new to this, now’s when you need support the most. My team can get your operation

more earnest Emery became, the more suspicious Aubree grew, she could practically smell something

good memories for her, the last time Emery had offered his

absurd this is?” she scoffed. “Let’s be honest, in the three years I spent with the Wilson family, I got scraps of kindness but a full course of suffering.

I can assign my team to you directly. We can sign a formal contract. That way, you’ll

Squad was such a powerhouse that everyone from star players to support staff became highly sought after by other clubs, unless they’d been dismissed for breaching their

favors, then expect me to go back and slave away for Carmen, right?” Aubree cut him off,

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she could ever bear.

Emery stammered, her words cut