The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 54

Imperial West Hospital.

Ashlyn was lying in bed, eyes shut.

Yvonne came rushing in, bawling her eyes out, and collapsed onto Ashlyn’s bed in a flood of tears!

“Granny, you’ve gotta save me! Grandpa says he’s gonna hand me over!”

“What’s the scoop? Your grandpa’s not lost his marbles; where’s he handing you off to?”

Yvonne pulled out the sob story she had prepped, crying her heart out.

“Granny, I’ve been pinching pennies to buy Nourishment Pills for Grandpa and Grandpa Sexton, but they say it’s no good. You’re taking Nourishment Pills yourself, Granny, you know best how awesome they are! I blew half a year’s pocket money on Nourishment Pills for Grandpa, and now he’s talking about handing me over to the Pollack family’s legal team, saying I’ve gotta do time… Granny, if I’m gone, who’s gonna look after you?”

Hearing this, Ashlyn started to panic. “Yvonne, you still got enough Nourishment Pills for me. right?”

If Yvonne got snatched by the Pollack folks, at least she wouldn’t be left high and dry without her meds!

“Yeah, you haven’t taken today’s yet, Granny. Have it now!”

With Yvonne’s help, Ashlyn took her Nourishment Pill, visibly relaxing, and with the scripture reading in the background, she began to drift off, losing focus on what was in front of her.

“Granny, you’ve gotta help me out. I’m your one and only granddaughter.”

Ashlyn, groggy, nodded along, echoing her words.

Yvonne tucked Ashlyn in with a smirk, pride written all over her face.

If Sexton got dosed with Nourishment Pills, maybe he’d start dancing to her tune just like Ashlyn!

In Marcel’s room, Calvin was holding two test papers.

“Mr. Schnabel, does your family have two Yvonnes or something? I mean, any relatives with that name?”

Marcel was stumped, putting down his chess piece.

“I got two identical test papers here, both with Yvonne’s name on them, check this out.”

“Let me see.”

On both papers, Yvonne’s name was written clear as day!

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was a fail, the other aced

be

of teachers have been saying they haven’t seen Yvonne since

reaching for his phone. “Yvonne, to my room.”

“Right away. Grandpa.”

saw Calvin, smug as a bug in a

being a whiz kid in

“Yvonne, explain this.”

utterly flummoxed! She hadn’t paid up, so

classes, I had to prove my chops this way. But I know she didn’t

“You’re saying you were threatened? Then

for being a

whipped out her phone, a barrage

really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy

the deal with the test then?”

score’s mine, even though I never set foot in school, I’ve been secretly studying

go,

left relieved, tears still streaming.

Calvin was gobsmacked!

are wasted on medicine!

you buying her story?”

a second, full of baloney like her

the plan for this mess?”

a moment, then dialed Beckett’s number, giving him the

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out what Yvonne’s been up to at school, and go easy on

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Mansion In Tranquility

to find it looked like a burglar had been through

the study

Briony sneaking into his study more than once, filching a bunch of the Lambert family documents and passing them to the Rosenberg family.

been taking hits. The Rosenbergs were stabbing them

family had been thriving under his watch,

up the

you don’t make up

been having a rough patch lately. It seems like everything they touch turned to dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads. They just lost it

junk? You really think you’re some kind of business whiz? How

just snorted. “I’ve got proof, and if you’re gonna play dumb, we can just take it to court!” The Rosenberg folks weren’t falling for that. “Proof? You mean that trash your daughter dragged in? Pfft! She was the one all eager to bring it, and we didn’t even want it! Don’t think I don’t know about you trying to butter up Ms. Schnabel with

Rosenberg family hung up in no