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?”

they’re all orphans taken in by the Obelisk Organization,

and the Lunar Lab’s researchers

eyes was unmistakable tenderness. “You’re very kind.”

not about being kind. You would’ve done the

lab’s worth of researchers–those orphans were the test subjects!

endless drugs, shocks, and other harrowing methods to stimulate their brains repeatedly, all to reach the limits of human

up and took down that lab named after the Polaris

was shocked. “The

Star organization that vanished from the international scene… you took them in?”

Star had caused an

to think Noella was

geniuses, each a pinnacle of excellence in their fields. The former members of Polaris Star were now heavy hitters influencing the world in

really agreeing

orphans and got to know a few old men.” Those old men were the surviving members

forced brain–boosting. The

by her

Palmer was impressed.

phone said she’d knocked

not look it, but she was

with even

you don’t have to steal it, and I’ll give it to you. Just one condition, take me with you, and everything

of his mind?

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gave him a look that screamed, “Are

under wraps. She’d been worried her boss wouldn’t know the

do you want to

“Whatever.”

you like and dislike. From now on, the Pollack. family’s kitchens and all our restaurants won’t serve anything you don’t enjoy.”

Noella was speechless.

Was that necessary?

said she’d definitely marry

of nerves since getting Marcel’s call, totally freaking out! The Pollack family’s legal

show us where you’ve been getting the Nourishment Pills

immediately put on her best frail and flustered act.

is killing me… Am I getting sick too? I think Palmer should come and

Pollack took his fiancée, Noella, out for a candlelit

“What the heck?”