The Queen They Buried

Chapter 246

All this time, I’ve been trying to secure Carmen’s position in the Wilson family. But because of my schemes, not only has my plan backfired spectacularly-now Aubree is going to expose everything!’ Alice thought anxiously.

“What happened?” Ronald asked, his piercing gaze locking onto Alice with undisguised fury.

Carmen was brought into the Wilson family three years after Aubree went missing, when Aubree was eight years old. At that time, Carmen wasn’t even in Rithol City yet.

Aubree continued, “When I was five, I was abducted. I don’t remember how I escaped the traffickers, but I just ended up in an orphanage, though not in Rithol City at first.

“When I was seven, the orphanage relocated here. Then, when I was ten, Alice came to the orphanage under the pretense of taking photos for a charity project. But in reality, she came to see me. So at the very least, when I was ten, Alice already knew my whereabouts.”

Alice was silent, her body trembling and her face ashen.

“I was brought back to the Wilson family at fifteen; it’s been three years since then. When I returned, Alice, you kept saying that I’d grown up outside for fifteen years and I must be full of bad habits and vices. You used that as an excuse to ‘educate’ me, abusing me in all sorts of ways. You even turned a blind eye when Carmen framed me in front of Bryan and the others. No, you didn’t just turn a blind eye. You fueled the fire.”

and abuse me in many ways. You even turned a blind eye when Carmen framed me in front of Bryan and the others. No, you didn’t just turn a blind

didn’t you bring me

suddenly looked at Aubree and said, “We

a look of

only did Alice conceal the fact that she’d found me when I was ten, but her completely fake!” Aubree

led ‘mental breakdown’ was

Think back; was adopting Carmen just because you were afraid Alice would lose her mind? Or did she have a hand in

the daughter she had lost for five years but also pretended to have

“You really did this? Eight years ago, you deliberately chose

doing fine in the orphanage, I just wanted to wait until Carmen’s position in the Wilson family became more

crossed her arms with a cold sneer. “Right, you didn’t. You just happened to visit the orphanage and conveniently

after having four sons. At least before she turned five, he truly doted on her as

look for her. ‘But what happened

Carmen came into the family, he had stayed out of family affairs. He adopted Carmen, thinking that