The Queen They Buried

Chapter 295

‘Sure enough, I’m still no match for Birgitte. Even after all this time, I couldn’t close the deal, and ended up making Ms. Miller come all the way here herself, thought Dorcas.

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Aubree looked at Dorcas’s noticeably thinner face with concern and gently patted her back. “I told you before, if you can’t close the deal, don’t push yourself. Kurtis was the one who approached us for the partnership, but now he’s just stringing us along. It’s obvious he has ulterior motives. He probably never intended to cooperate in good faith from the start.”

Of course, I’m not really here to discuss business,‘ Aubree mused.

Gordon’s flower shop only restocked once a month. Seriously, what was his deal? It was weird enough for a psychologist, who was definitely not short on cash, to run a flower shop, but every month he still insisted on hauling himself downtown to buy fresh flowers.

The monthly flower supply run was coming up soon. ‘I’m going to find out exactly what dirty little secrets Gordon and Alice are hiding!‘ Aubree thought.

Aubree composed her expression, her gaze turning calm. “Take me to Kurtis first,” she instructed.

Anticipating Aubree’s visit, Kurtis had reserved a private spot at an exclusive golf club early that morning and was awaiting her arrival.

arrived with Dorcas in tow, Kurtis had just sunk a putt. One of his agency’s artists was fawning over him with exaggerated admiration.

entourage, he flashed a charming smile. “Ms. Miller, I’ve heard a great deal about

first. Aubree responded with a brief, perfunctory

a playboy. Put him next to Ollie, and Ollie

build such a massive empire from scratch–a rare display of

an audience with you is no easy feat, Ms. Miller,” Kurtis chuckled, his smile

cooperation, I thought reaching an agreement wouldn’t be difficult…” Aubree paused, her tone full of implication. “But now it seems I was overthinking it. You don’t seem very interested in

you from the start, Ms. Miller,” he said, glancing at Dorcas. “But you

flashed an overtly

flickered oddly for a moment. ‘Wait, is this

forty. Sure, he had that dashing playboy look, but if he’d been a bit wilder in his

that we’ve finally

tonight. It’s shame

to

time, Ms.

exactly do you know?”