The Queen They Buried

Ollie happily picked up his fork and took a big bibe, only for the saltiness to almost kill him. Eyes watering, he infinctively grabbed the bout of sto and took a gulp, forgetting it was still piping hot. His face twisted through a series of expressions. He wanted to spit it out, but couldn’t, shared himself to swallow it,

Having wisely anticipated potential disaster, Mark only took a couple of cautious bites of oatmeal before commenting. “The atmaal is not bad.“.

“Bowen, I know you’re loaded, but that doesn’t mean you have to use the entire salt supply!” Ollie spluttered his tongue numb from both the scalding heat and overwhelming saltiness. He gulped down several glasses of water before finally catching his breath

Bowen frowned thoughtfully, picked up a vegetable, and took a small bite. “The oatmeal needs to cool down, he muttered. “And loverulted the

Ollie finally caught on “Hold up, Bowen, what the hell do you mean? So you’re using me as your guinea pig, huh?”

Bowen shot D

Olle a disdainful look. “You just realized he retorted, completely unapologetic.

Ollie coughed violently, nearly choking. ‘Damn it, Bowen! What do you take me for? Your lab rat?

He didn’t need to think hard to guess who could get Bowen to cook. ‘Great So Aubree’s precious, and I’m just chopped liver pie thought angrily.

said, “Bowen, keep this up and you

his first failed attempt, he carried the dish back into the kitchen. After two more rounds of tweaking,

became a permanent resident of

himself in the kitchen and asked, “Did you look

glanced up at him, his

Mark nodded. “Yeah.”

with her!” Bowen

whether Aubree is the person Alvin’s parents saved before they got killed. I got some childhood photos of Aubree from the orphanage, but they were damaged. I sent

into this, my investigation led me to Alice. Turns out, the information

had time to think about how Mark had been investigating Aubree when that sentence snagged his attention. “What do you

a while, but in reality, she only seemed mildly depressed nowhere near the intense emotional swings your investigation suggested, it wasn’t until much later that her behavior suddenly

this should help you, I wanted to dig deeper, but that’s as far as I

illness, probably just to bring

a mischievous glint in his eyes. “Oh, by the way, Bowen,

probably wouldn’t have picked up

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