The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 46

Tristan has no idea how vast Marcel’s connections were!

Yvonne’s eyes nearly popped out of her head when she saw that mountain of gifts worth at king’s ransom!

A ghostly voice whispered in Yvonne’s ear.

“Yvonne, where do you think you’re going?”

“Ah! Elara, you scared the bejeezus out of me!”

Elara was so close to Yvonne’s ear when she spoke that Yvonne practically jumped out of her skin!

“Cut the act. You’re the one who leaked that video, right? You showed it to me before. Don’t you dare say someone swiped your phone and played it at Noella’s birthday party on purpose!”

Yvonne was crying up a storm, all choked up. “I was just looking out for Noella! What if she’s got a crush on someone and doesn’t want to marry Mr. Pollack? I can’t bear to see her unhappy! Elara, how could you think I did it on purpose?”

Elara frowned at Yvonne, making her squirm with guilt.

“Elara, Grandma’s in the hospital with no one to look after her. I’m heading there now, so can we talk about this when I get back, please?”

“Go ahead.

Elara watched Yvonne beat a hasty retreat, her eyes scrutinizing her every move.

Something about Yvonne just didn’t sit right with her.

After the party, Tristan turned to Palmer. “Didn’t you say you had something to discuss with

us?”

The four Schnabel sons were on high alert, ready to bounce Palmer if he even hinted at stealing their sister away.

“It’s my granddad; he’s hoping Noella would come to see him. And someone from the Schnabel family bought some trending searches that were harmful to both our families. I’ve dealt with it. but you still have the right to know.”

Tristan tensed up. “What trending searches?”

Annie handed over a phone, respectfully saying, “Mr. Schnabel, it was Miss Yvonne who bought the searches, claiming she’s the only daughter of the Schnabel family.”

“Shoot, how could I forget about that Yvonne girl?” Tristan looked around but couldn’t spot Yvonne anywhere. “What was she thinking, buying that kind of trending search? Thank

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goodness Mr. Pollack caught it in time, otherwise our families‘ reputations would’ve been trashed. I disown her; she’s at best a granddaughter my mother took in.”

lady’s not well, and her mind gets muddled. As for your grandfather wanting to see Noella, that’s easy. Noella visits her grandpa every day, so she

already agreed to help Palmer’s grandfather and wouldn’t back out now just because she finds out he’s not really a broke Uber driver.

go

next door, so

there. He should’ve bought Noella a castle!

Mansion,

her phone, green with envy as she watched Ms. Schnabel’s birthday party. being livestreamed worldwide! Any old wine glass there would cover

month.

Ms. Schnabel made her entrance, the stream froze, leaving Briony unable to

this be

and Briony, eagle–eyed, spotted someone in the corner of the frame holding hands with

Noella? What’s she doing at the Schnabel family’s

at the

eighty. Noella, using her youth to snag an old geezer… She’ll get her

luck and quickly turned

snuck into Vincent’s study, swiped a few documents, and hopped a

four of them plus Elara looked dead serious.

Palmer’s

Noella just got home, and I won’t allow her

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Noella, Mom and Dad and

he can marry our little sister

see if they’ve got any dirty

meaningful looks, the seriousness clear in their

sister getting married soon had them all up in

“What if–and I just mean what if–Noella likes him?”

his glasses, all business. “Whether Noella likes him or not, we gotta vet this guy. We can’t let

the world. They had to be

in Noella’s room.

barrage of texts from him asking where she was, if she needed a lift, how her day was. and if she had any new missions or whatever.

kept blowing up her phone like there was no tomorrow.

beat, chucked him straight into her block list and

gift from you. Thank you so much.]

Hector replied.

City next month to check in on you. Heard the Gemstone Gambling

pick you up

see you then.]

in the chat–how many of them were actually going to show up

looking to throw down a

pretty psyched to see for herself who this gutsy Gemstone Gambling King was that had been