The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 38

Ashlyn squinted her eyes. lying on the bed and looking all high and mighty at Noella, who had Rust walked in through the door. She snorted coldly. “Do you even know what time it is? Do I even exist to you anymore?”

Noella replied with indifference. “It’s seven in the morning. Can’t you tell the time? I thought second graders learned that. Maybe I should get you one of those talking digital clocks tomorrow.”

The wall clock was right there beside Ashlyn’s bed, impossible to miss. So, she must’ve forgotten how to tell time.

Ashlyn was so angry her chest heaved, and she was about to lose grip on her prayer beads!

“Great, just great, you little brat, trying to send me to an early grave, huh? I asked you here to take care of me, not to act like some spoiled princess.”

Noella was baffled. “Grandma, your mood swings are kind of intense. Should I get a neurologist. to check on you?”

Ashlyn was speechless.

Looking at Noella’s face, which bore a 60-70% resemblance to Sienna, Ashlyn’s mouth and nose almost twisted together in anger!

“Don’t you think you’ll have an easy time under my roof! Come here, I want an apple. Peel one for me.”

Noella sat down, picked up an apple from the fruit basket, and peeled it for Ashlyn.

No sooner had she finished peeling than Ashlyn’s eyebrows shot up. “What kind of peeling is this? You’ve taken half the flesh off! What am I supposed to eat?”

In Noella’s other hand was the apple skin, thin as a cicada’s wing. “If you don’t fancy the flesh, you can nibble on the skin, though I wouldn’t recommend it.”

Ashlyn was speechless again.

Country bumpkins like her surely had done plenty of rough and unsophisticated farm work. Peeling apples was something ladies and misses of high society would never dream of doing themselves.

Ashlyn glared at Noella with contempt in her eyes.

“I’ve lost my appetite. Get me a glass of water. I want it hot.”

“Sure thing.”

Noella stood up, poured a glass of water, and handed it to Ashlyn.

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“You damned girl, are you trying to scald me to death?”

Noella took out a thermometer. “The water’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit. If that’s too hot for you, maybe it’s time to consult a psychiatrist.”

Ashlyn was speechless.

Who the heck would carry around a thermometer for food?

marbles? You really want to drive me nuts! Is this how your parents raised you? Ha, such a fine daughter

I

speechless again.

immune to

the nurse’s station and fetch my meds for today. Just seeing your face gives me a headache!”

“Alright.”

station and

furrowed slightly.

insisted on. We just prepare them daily as she requests; the

Noella was confused.

Self–prescribed?

add their

nurse looked distressed. “She warned us not to tell Dr. Calvin, threatening to complain about us if

was something Noella was beginning to understand.

within her wheelhouse, and these fresh–faced nurses were no match for Marcel’s wife.

it. You go on with your work.”

it was evident that the medical staff didn’t arrange them; it was Ashlyn who snuck

Noella pulled out her phone and dialed Calvin’s number.

Noella. Can you swing by Imperial West

I’m

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but Noella hung up and promptly

was simply too chatty for her

got your

sat up, took the medicine from Noella’s hand, and eyed

look different from what Yvonne usually

at a loss for words. Now, she suspected that Ashlyn had a severe case

security footage: I brought them straight

have the guts for that. Just so you know, as long as I’m alive, you’re not setting foot in

said calmly. “But I go there

she get home?

was nearly choked with

her speech as her mother! Just looking

taking her medicine, Ashlyn started bossing Noella around again.

me to the bathroom; I

you become paralyzed?”

you implying? Are you cursing

own. If you can’t, I’ll call a doctor to fit

but to haul herself up

was nothing compared to the sweet

Ashlyn started clutching her heart and

the gods can’t bear to watch…

are you planning on

as she sat bolt upright, trembling finger pointed

do you mean? Did your mother teach you to say that? Oh, that