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

Lunar Lab’s researchers were orphans Noella had

unmistakable tenderness. “You’re very

You

whole medical lab’s worth of researchers–those orphans

constantly being pushed, with endless drugs, shocks, and other harrowing methods to stimulate their brains repeatedly, all to

so she just up and took down that lab named

was shocked.

that vanished from the international scene… you took them

had caused an

Noella

of excellence in their fields. The former members of Polaris Star were now heavy hitters influencing the world in

frowned slightly, not really agreeing with

I just happened to adopt twenty–four orphans and 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 of the twenty–four constellations

brain–boosting. The twenty–four had their mental issues, unable to tolerate

had them stay by her side as her

Palmer was impressed.

she’d knocked

it, but she was full of

looked at Noella with

and I’ll give it to you. Just one condition,

out of his

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him a look that screamed,

the passenger seat, could barely keep her grin under wraps. She’d been worried her boss wouldn’t know the first thing

want to

“Whatever.”

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

Noella was speechless.

Was that necessary?

even said she’d

Yvonne had been a bundle of nerves since getting Marcel’s call, totally freaking out! The Pollack family’s legal team was quick to come

could you please show us where you’ve been getting the Nourishment

best frail and flustered

killing me… Am I getting sick too? I think Palmer should come and ask me himself. Where

Pollack took his fiancée, Noella, out for a candlelit dinner.”

“What the heck?”