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.

and

had friends after all. After his first failed attempt, he carried the dish back into the kitchen. After two more rounds of tweaking, the new salad finally burned out

never known such hardship in his pampered life, Ollie “gloriously became a permanent

in the kitchen and asked, “Did you look into Mrs. Wilson

glanced up at

Mark nodded. “Yeah.”

up with

replied, “The nearly finished investigating 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 them to a restoration

my investigation led me to Alice. Turns

about how Mark had been investigating Aubree when that sentence

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

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

Alice taked her mental illness, probably just to bring Carmen back to

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

wouldn’t have

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