Chapter 431

It was all part of the plan. Aubree quickly paid for the flowers and turned to hand them to Bowen. “Hey, flowers?”

pretty boy, want so

some

Bowen, the so–called ‘pretty boy“, was momentarily stunned. He looked at the carefully arranged bouquet before him, finding it rather novel. He reached out to take it ‘Call me that again?*

Aubree realized he was talking about the “pretty boy” part.

“Call you what? Pretty boy… Aubree played along with a grin, her voice lilting and sweet, full of playful charm.

Even though she was obviously putting on an act to tease him, Bowen found it quite amusing. He grinned. “How’d you know I like being called that?”

He never told her about his birthday, and one couldn’t even find it online.

“I asked Ollie, Aubree admitted.

JShould’ve known,” Bowen chuckled.

He gave

in one hand and pulled her tightly into his arms with the other, like he wanted to

blame you. I just don’t celebrate my birthday. I used to have a hard time letting go, but it’s been so long now, I’m not a kid anymore. I’ve moved on. I just don’t want my brother to be alone on this day, so I go to the cemetery to spend some time with him, like I always

anymore. Birthdays, for me, are just business events in

beaming up at

now on

your brother were still here, I bet he’d want to

charge of

around his neck, rising up on tiptoe, and kissing

fireworks burst into bloom behind them,

caught the

school after Bowen’s birthday. Meanwhile, after Trevor and Sophia got their marriage licenses, Sophia finally married into the Wilson family. But as soon as she

their partnership was over, then blocked and deleted her

of any use to her. Honestly, if they’d stayed allies, Aubree might’ve even felt a little bad when it came time to make her

cough up a ton in breach–of–contract fees, lost a bunch of high–end endorsements. He could kiss this year’s Best Actor award goodbye, but that

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