The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 52

The phone started ringing off the hook and Noella grabbed her phone, hitting the answer button.

Dubhe, a researcher from Lunar Lab, was howling on the other end.

“Boss, someone dropped off the latest lab gear for us, and guess what, it’s from the Pollack Group! They say it’s a gift for Mr. Pollack’s fiancée, but who the heck is a fiancée in our lab? It’s all dudes and beasts here! Should we even take this stuff? What If there’s a bomb inside or something? And if it blows us to kingdom come, I wonder if they’d find any shining wisdom in my remains.”

Noella said, “The lab gear’s for me.”

“What? You’re kidding, right? I mean, no offense, but who in their right mind would see you as a damsel? Wait a sec, it’s really for you? Since when are you chummy with the big boss of the Pollack Group?”

The Pollack Group is a mega conglomerate that’s got its fingers in pies all over the globe, from oil to toilet paper, they’ve got a stake in it.

“Just accept the stuff and zip it.”

“Hold up, the Pollack Group sent a bunch of potions too, stuff you can’t even buy with cash. Boss, you sure you didn’t do anything sketchy? Don’t tell me you knocked over the Pollack Group!”

From the side. Phecda chimed in, “As if! The boss ain’t like that. If she was gonna hit the Pollack Group, she’d totally go for the whole shebang, not just swipe some trinkets!”

Noella was speechless.

Palmer was muffling a chuckle with his fist, shoulders shaking. He was clearly amused by the clowns Noella had around her.

“Shut it, just log the data and keep your traps shut, or I’ll use you as guinea pigs for my next dissection practice.”

Two screams came from the phone, “Ahh, I knew our boss is stone–cold! She’s terrifying!”

“Hang on, the boss is the fiancée of the Pollack Group’s CEO? Does that make me part of her wedding gift?”

“You clueless? We’re more like bridesmaids! Heehee, when the boss marries off, do we get to dress up too?”

Noella hung up, totally exasperated.

Palmer was trying hard not to laugh, his shoulders bouncing up and down. It was a rare sight to see her looking a bit flustered–adorable!

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“Your lab’s researchers?”

orphans taken in by the Obelisk Organization, picked up

Lab’s researchers were orphans Noella

Palmer’s eyes was unmistakable

not about being kind. You

taken a whole medical lab’s worth of researchers–those

intelligence was constantly being pushed, with endless drugs, shocks, and other harrowing methods to

took down that lab named after the Polaris

shocked. “The

organization that vanished from the international scene…

Star had caused an uproar on the

Noella was behind it!

a pinnacle of excellence in their fields. The former members of

really agreeing with

got to know a few old men.” Those old men were the surviving members of the former Polaris Star! They later became Noella’s mentors, passing on all the expertise

her mentors without any forced brain–boosting. The twenty–four had their mental issues, unable to tolerate anyone

her side as her

Palmer was impressed.

she’d knocked

might not look it, but she was

at Noella with

give it to you. Just one condition, take me

out of his mind?

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gave him a look that screamed, “Are you brain–damaged?”

wraps. She’d been worried her boss wouldn’t know the first thing about dating, but with these smooth lines, he was on

you want to eat?” asked

“Whatever.”

what you like and dislike. From now on, the

Noella was speechless.

Was that necessary?

she’d definitely marry him!

Marcel’s call, totally freaking out! The Pollack

you please show us where you’ve been getting the Nourishment Pills from? Mr.

immediately put on her best frail and flustered act.

too? I think Palmer should come and ask me himself. Where is he?”

took his fiancée, Noella, out for a candlelit

“What the heck?”