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.”

a blind eye when Carmen framed me in front of Bryan and the others. No, you

you bring me back to the

himself, then suddenly looked at Aubree and said, “We only got news about you three years ago; that

of utter contempt.

conceal the fact that she’d found me when I was ten, but her completely

led ‘mental breakdown’ was

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

eye to the daughter she had lost for five years but also

Alice and asked word by word, “You really did this? Eight years ago, you deliberately chose

the orphanage, I just wanted to wait until Carmen’s position in the Wilson family became more secure. Otherwise, if Aubree returned

you didn’t. You just happened to visit the

At least before she turned five,

Ronald indeed mobilized all resources to look for her.

family affairs. He adopted Carmen, thinking that she