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

back into

hardship in his pampered life, Ollie “gloriously became a permanent resident of the bathroom after eating that

watched Bowen busying himself in the kitchen and asked,

you mean?” Bowen glanced up at him,

Mark nodded. “Yeah.”

with

I got some childhood photos of Aubree from the orphanage, but they were damaged.

investigation led me to Alice. Turns out, the information

been investigating Aubree when

did appear troubled for 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

dig deeper,

mental illness, probably just to bring Carmen back to

didn’t say that.” Mark shrugged, a mischievous glint in his eyes. “Oh, by the way, Bowen, are you planning to call hina

he probably wouldn’t have picked

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