The Queen They Buried

The Timberlake family’s front door swung wide open, letting the winter wind rush in Bowen stood framed in the entrance, his coat trapping at his sides, hair whipping wildly in the guts

The refined elegance he usually displayed was nowhere to be seen. His eyes now held nothing but bleak, steely coldness.

At that moment, Gareth fully realized just how his overconfidence had utterly doomed him. He’d wall and truly dug his own grave this time.

“You’re trespassing!” Mandy, standing nearby, mustered unexpected courage and shrieked.

Boven merely chuckled. “Do you want me to help you call the police? And while we’re at it, maybe we should talk about Gareth hiring thugs for kidnapping? That’s a much more serious crime than your son’s pathetic attempt to molest a girl”

Gareth and Mandy collapsed in utter despair. Mandy’s lips trembled as she pleaded, her voice shaking “Bowen, for Jacqueline’s sake, I’m begging you. Please spare us this time. Nothing happened to that girl,did it?”

“Then if I beat Gareth half to death and send him to the hospital, can we also pretend nothing happened?” Bowen retorted mercilessly.

Seeing that the two of them fell silent, Bowen didn’t lay a hand on them or say another word. He cast one last, penetrating glance at them, then turned and strode away.

No sooner had Gareth and Mandy finally breathed a sigh of relief than a throng of reporters, who had been waiting in ambush, swarmed in and blocked every exit. Hot on their heels came the piercing wall of police sirens.

Merely charging Gareth with hiring thugs for kidnapping would be letting him off too lightly. Bowen wanted to saddle him with far more serious charges, carrying prohibited weapons, being a dangerous fugitive, and attempted murder.

In less than half a day, the Timberlake family scandal exploded everywhere, with Jacob’s past misdeeds dragged into the spotlight, every dirty detail laid bare

Timberlake family’s influence finally came

leaving spalled Mandy stranded. She was powerless to stop

family

the newspaper when he learned of the incident. True to his age, he was a man of old habits. He never cared for

He remarked, “The Timberlake family has grown increasingly brazen these past

landed themselves in trouble.”

They harmed someone under his protection,” one of Enrique’s subordinates

Enrique responded,

was a woman,”

eyes glinted. “Now that’s

with the Timberlake family. Bowen rushed straight

Aubree was still unconscious, with

sho?” Bowen

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“Still asleep,” Alvin replied.

two go get some rest. I’ll stay with her,” Bowen

had special feelings for Aubree Realizing there was no reason for her to stay, Matilda nodded and