Al Timberlake Group, Gareth had been homilated by Bowen. As an elder, hente expected Bowen in show him such blatant direspect. The slight stung his pride, and there was no way he was going to let this slide
The secretary eyed the file on Aubree sitting on the desk and smirked. “Mr. Timberlake, since Mr. Turner cars so much about her, we can’t go aftar less directly–but we can certainly make life difficult for Aubern.”
“Go ahead,” said Gareth
“Aubree had a falling out with the Wilson family, and it’s Mr. Wilson who’s been behind the recent troubles targeting her company, Brae Technology. We can’t go up against the Turner family, but that doesn’t the Wison family are off limits,” he said
Gareth stroked his chin thoughtfully. “Contact Mr. Wilson for me. I’d like to invite him to dinner tonight”
He had already gathered quite a few allies. With Jacob still recovering from his injuries, he had ample time to orchestrate his plans.
Bowen wouldn’t budge–he didn’t care about the ties between the two families, but he definitely cared about Aubree roould get leverage over her, it would serve the same purpose, wondered Gareth.
Aubree remained blissfully unaware of the Timberlake family’s schemes against her. The USB drive Bowen gave her worked charm, instantly resolving the club’s troubles. As for who was really behind it, she had a pretty good idea–it could only be one of those few suspects
Aubree saw no point in digging any deeper, it would just be a waste of time and energy.
Her company was thriving. Ronald had tried to crush her with the underage spending scandal, but Aubree turned the tables and leveraged it to her. advantage, further enhancing her public image.
Perhaps stung by this setback, the Wilson family abruptly fell silent.
With the Wilson family no longer causing trouble, Aubree was glad for the reprieve. She was now fully focused on expanding her company’s gaming division and frequently attended key matches of her esports team in person. Life kept her busier than ever.
As usual, Aubree was there in person for God’s Fury’s decisive Stier qualifier match.
However, the previous match was Apex Squad’s. When Aubree arrived, she saw them getting steamrolled, the other team already destroying their Nexu She hadn’t been following the matches much lately, but she knew her boys had been killing it, only dropping a single game.
“Killian is actually on the bench,’ she wondered. Aubree was taken aback. She might not like him, but she had to admit he was one of the top mid laners right now, and Apex Squad’s heavy investment in him said it all
But now, Killian wasn’t even in the game.
“What are you looking at?” Alvin leaned over in his team jersey to ask
Aubree asked, “Why did Apex Squad change their mid laner?”
Alvin shrugged, “They switched him out back in Game 3. Apex Squad hasn’t won a single senes since the regular season started–at this cake, they’re probably getting knocked out in Round Two.”
Aubree was genuinely shocked this time–even in her old life, Apex Squad had never performed this poorly
“No wonder Emery looks so grim on the sidelings. But with things going this badly, why isn’t he pulling Killian back in Aubree wondered
“Rumor has it Emery found out Killian was involved in some shady dealings. But since it’s mid–tournament and he can’t take official action, he just benched him,” Alvin explained.
Aubree had some answers now. “That audio clip online accusing us of bribing Apex Squad to throw the match’s almost certainly Kilian doing
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Alvin replied. “Tigured as much. Apex Squad lost. Time for us to get ready to go on.”
As the commentator’s final congratulations rang out, the Apex Squad players filed off the stage one by one, their faces ashen with defeat
“Who cares about them? We just need to win today’s match,” Aubree thought. Apex Squad’s future was none of her concert now, and neither was
Emery’s
Backstage, the two teams crossed paths–one, God’s Fury, poised for glory; the other, Apex Squad, utterly defeated.
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