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?

you implying I’m losing my marbles? You really want to drive me nuts! Is this how your parents raised you? Ha, such a fine daughter of the Schnabel family!”

the compliment, Grandma. I

was speechless again.

immune to both carrots

nurse’s station and fetch my meds for

“Alright.”

compliant, headed out to the nurse’s station and picked up Ashlyn’s medication for

Noella’s brow furrowed slightly. “Is this all

We just prepare

Noella was confused.

Self–prescribed?

their own meds

to tell Dr. Calvin, threatening to complain about us if we did. We can’t

something Noella was beginning

enough, bullying was within her wheelhouse, and these

You go on with your work.”

was clearly something fishy about these meds! But it was evident that the medical staff

her

Can you swing by Imperial West Hospital?”

I’m on

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but Noella hung up and promptly

simply too chatty for her liking, a real headache inducer.

got your meds.”

medicine from Noella’s hand, and eyed her suspiciously.

different from

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

the security footage: I brought them straight from the

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

calmly. “But I

would she get

choked with

girl just as unlikeable in her speech as her mother! Just looking at her brought bad luck, nothing like the sensible and

started bossing Noella around

the bathroom; I need to go.”

when did you become paralyzed?”

implying? Are

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

had no choice but to haul herself up to use the bathroom.

sweet and helpful Yvonne, who always assisted her!

clutching her heart

hard, even the gods can’t bear

you planning on divorcing

miraculously disappeared as she sat

you mean? Did your mother teach you to say that? Oh, that ungrateful woman. I knew she was up to no