The Queen They Buried

Chapter 303

“By the way, why was Kurtis so convinced you killed his beloved?” Aubree hesitated over those last three words. Honestly, she despised Kurtis. ‘Say he’s devoted? He went all out with stand–ins. Say he’s not? Then why has he been clashing with the Turner Group all these years for his so–called lover?‘ thought Aubree.

“To be honest, I wasn’t entirely clear myself,” Bowen admitted. “I only learned the details last night after reviewing the documents Kelvin had compiled.

“Back then, I was targeted. Afterwards, all I knew was that the kidnappers accidentally injured a woman, who happened to be a junior assistant at my company. I figured they were venting their frustration for not catching me, so 1 had Kelvin arrange a sum of money as compensation for the victim’s family. I never gave it another thought after that.”

Aubree asked, “So, that assistant was Kurtis’s beloved?”

“Yeah, according to what Kurtis said, the first day I arrived in Kroit City, Cordelia had a thing for me and applied to be my assistant. But with Kelvin handling everything for me at the time, I never interacted with her.” That last part sounded suspiciously like Bowen trying to clear his own name.

“Oh, Mr. Turner,” Aubree teased, “you must’ve been quite the heartthrob at eighteen. No wonder everyone was drawn to you.”

“I wasn’t eighteen back then,” Bowen muttered weakly in his own defense.

Bowen explained, “Anyway, in Kurtis’s version of events, it became that I didn’t care for Cordelia, but used her as a human shield and then fled the scene. The compensation I offered was twisted into proof of my guilty conscience. That’s why Kurtis’s been at odds with me ever since.”

rubbed his temples in frustration. All this time, he had assumed Kurtis was simply opposing him over business competition. He’d had no idea there was such

Cordelia looked like. How could he possibly play out

would never do something so despicable! Just

Bree.‘

about Gordon then?” Aubree

after him once the ship

still exhausted. With a weary nod, she lay

had tapped into his extensive networks in Kroit City. “I’ve located Gordon,” he reported. “He’ll be

people, while the rest were local journalists in Kroit City. They were misled into

soft on them these past few years. Now they’ve got the nerve to stake

by reporters and paparazzi staking him out. It had been ages

docked, and their chauffeur

three were about to disembark, Kurtis’s phone blared with urgent insistence. A panicked voice reported, “Mr. Carr, the dock is swarming with reporters. It’s

and Bowen also overheard that. Aubree frowned and asked, “Didn’t we already deal with all

are just too many of them, and when they smell a big story, there’s no way to completely shut

without any photos of the three of them, with reporters spinning the story, fiction could easily become fact. And since it was Alice’s setup from