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 it.

the failing one’s gotta be hers, and the other must be

hired. Plus, a bunch of teachers have been saying they

for his phone. “Yvonne,

“Right away. Grandpa.”

and saw Calvin, smug as a bug in

tipped off Marcel about her being a whiz kid in medicine, about time he started giving

“Yvonne, explain this.”

and was utterly flummoxed! She hadn’t paid up, so how come

her a break. She’s had it rough! Even though she bullied me at school, stopped me from attending classes, I had to prove my chops this way. But I know she didn’t mean any

“You’re saying you were

used to pick on me for being a Schnabel girl, and with my

phone, a barrage of mean messages on

things they’ve said. I’m really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy on them. They didn’t mean

the deal with the test then?”

I never set foot in school, I’ve been secretly studying outside the classroom.

you go, I’ll handle

relieved, tears

Calvin was gobsmacked!

chops are wasted

Schnabel you buying

full of baloney like

the plan for this

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

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go

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Mansion In

to find it looked like a burglar had been

been savvy enough to install cameras in the study after a bid

he caught Briony sneaking into his study more than once, filching a bunch

wonder the Lambert family had been taking hits. The Rosenbergs were stabbing them

family had been thriving under his watch, never faced such a rough patch

dialed up the Rosenberg family.

sure got some nerve swiping all my stuff. If you don’t

they touch turned to dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads.

family’s junk? You really think you’re some kind of business whiz? How do you have the nerve to come

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 gifts and getting the door slammed in your face. Now, the whole Imperial City and Tranquility City won’t touch

family hung up