Chapter 27
Chapter 27
Aubree hadn’t been home for a week. The house stayed just as quiet as ever.
Only Bryan and Emery had gone to the school twice, trying to raise hell.
At home, as long as Carmen was around, no one even mentioned Aubree’s name.
Emery never thought the reason Bryan finally decided to go get Aubree back was to have her ghostwrite Carmen’s work.
When Bryan found out from his assistant that Aubree hadn’t reached out to him once, his first reaction wasn’t concern. He wasn’t worried something might’ve happened to her. No, he was pissed. How dare she?
Luckily, the police had shared some information. In the surveillance footage, Aubree could be seen heading to a park after being kicked out of the village housing.
Late at night, a Rolls-Royce stopped in front of the park for a while. After that, Aubree was always seen coming and going from school in a luxury car.
In the last bit of the footage, Aubree first went to Forith Bay.
Forith Bay was a private residential area, easy to recognize. Aubree had barely gone in when a man showed up and took her to one of the riverside villas.
“The police gave me the exact address of that villa,” Emery said, looking at the info on his phone. He couldn’t stop Bryan, so the only thing he could do now was protect Aubree as much as he could when she came back.
If Aubree knew what Emery was thinking right now, she’d probably laugh out loud. After leaving the Wilsons’ so-called protection, she realized-life outside was wide open and full of light.
Carmen was watching the surveillance footage on her phone, hesitating. She tugged gently at Bryan’s sleeve. “Bryan, do you think Aubree would do something stupid?”
Just one sentence and Bryan’s face changed instantly. He muttered, ‘How can I forget that?
‘I assume Aubree’s becoming rebellious, but the surveillance suggests she might be seeking favor with a wealthy man!’
Emery turned pale. It wasn’t that he thought Aubree was shameful or anything, it was the idea that this might’ve all been forced on her.
That thought hurt so much Emery couldn’t breathe. It was his fault. He hadn’t been a good brother.
Up on the third floor training room of GOD’s Fury, Aubree had already wiped the floor with everyone except their support. Even the coach didn’t escape.
Hector watched in awe. He asked, “Captain, between you and Phoenix, who’s stronger?”
Alvin said, “Why don’t you guess why she’s even here?”
Hector scratched his head with a sheepish grin. He almost forgot about Alvin’s strict recruitment standards. From the looks of it, not only had he lost to Phoenix-he’d probably lost more than once.
Aubree was busy dominating the game and had no idea the Wilsons were three seconds away from showing up at the base.
“I looked into it. That villa’s under Alvin’s name. He bought it a year ago and turned it into the team’s training base,” Bryan said, his face dark.
Bryan thought, ‘A girl in an esports team base? Seriously? With a bunch of guys? Who knows what shady stuff she’s up to
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here?’
Hearing this, Carmen gasped and covered her mouth. “So…. she’s been living here all this time? With a bunch of boys? That doesn’t seem great.”
As if Carmen had said what he was already thinking, Bryan’s face turned even darker.
“Aubree is not like that,” Emery cut in.
It was the first time anyone had snapped at Carmen like that. Her smile froze, and she put on a hurt look. “I’m sorry.”
But Emery couldn’t care less. His mind was completely on Aubree. He didn’t even look at Carmen and went straight to knock on the door,
Carmen had never been treated like that before. She was too stunned to even react.
Inside, rage bubbled up. Carmen muttered, ‘Aubree! How are you still standing after everything?’
Bryan patted Carmen’s head. “I’ll take care of it.”
Carmen looked up at him, smiling innocently. “Thanks, Bryan.”
When the three of them were let in by the housekeeper in charge of the team’s daily needs, they saw a bunch of teens crowding around Aubree as they walked down from the third floor.
The guys were all talking over each other, asking how Aubree pulled off those moves in-game.
“Aubree!” Bryan snapped, the whole scene setting him off. ‘Isn’t she supposed to be at home, begging me to let her come back?’ he thought.
“What are you doing?” Bryan said coldly.
Aubree was surprised to see the three of them, then frowned. “Mr. Wilson, what I do has nothing to do with you.”
