The Queen They Buried

Chapter 222

After breakfast, Enrique, who wasn’t eager to go out at his age, handed each of the five a gift envelope and then settled down to watch TV at home. Since one car couldn’t accommodate all five of them, Aubree, intentionally avoiding Bowen, insisted on one car for herself.

Bowen didn’t provide any further comments, and the two cars left one after the other. Once inside the car, Alvin immediately muttered under his breath, “Uncle Bowen, I take back what I said about you being a beast yesterday.”

Bowen shot him a glance. “You’re a total monster,” Alvin added.

Bowen tried to restrain himself but ultimately couldn’t resist and gave Alvin a light smack on the head. “Could you show some respect, please?”

Alvin clutched his head but responded with a serious tone, “I’m judging you, Uncle. That bite mark? I’m pretty sure you did most of the biting.”

Bowen gave him a long, meaningful glance. “It was bitten,” he said.

Alvin’s expression shifted, and he scoffed, “Whatever.”

last night,” Bowen said, trying to change the topic. Both Alvin, sitting beside him, and Ethan, driving up front, silently rolled their eyes at his blatant

stir the pot. “Mr. Turner, blaming it on booze is one of the oldest excuses out there. If you were truly that drunk, you would have passed out completely-there’s

a chill running down his spine. “Bryce’s team is understaffed. After Christmas, you’ll be going

their responsibilities. Samson and Ethan stayed with

investigations while the rest of the team provided backup support, always ready for

wrong,” Ethan said, his expression filled with

three months. After we leave, you’ll head directly from

chastened and didn’t dare

back early, rather than remain for a few more days. They had initially planned to stay until Aubree and Alvin returned for school. Little did they know that unexpected

the MindDrift situation, Aubree had Vincent exhaust his annual leave and lay the groundwork for her plan to

undoubtedly shut down MindDrift. Even if Carmen somehow managed to evade personal consequences, the platform would be doomed. A live-streaming platform struggling with fatalities and rampant money laundering, Carmen

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brought on Vincent to engage with regulatory officials, subtly promoting new regulations for live streaming. Once those regulations were established, she planned to launch PK battles and

act first. It seemed that