The Queen They Buried

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 hold her so close she’d become a part of

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

a kid anymore. Birthdays, for me, are just business events in disguise. There’s

at him. “Well, your birthdays won’t

now on

were still here, I bet he’d want to see you actually enjoy

charge of my birthdays from now

around his neck, rising

that moment, fireworks burst into bloom behind them, painting the night

caught the

work and 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

message saying their partnership was over, then blocked and deleted

her. Honestly, if they’d stayed allies, Aubree might’ve even felt a little bad when

The whole mess hadn’t hit him hard. Sure, he had to cough up a ton in