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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the other

checked the handwriting; the failing one’s gotta be

been saying they haven’t seen Yvonne since the term started!”

reaching for his phone. “Yvonne, to

“Right away. Grandpa.”

the room and saw Calvin, smug

being a whiz kid in medicine, about time he started

“Yvonne, explain this.”

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

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 harm,

narrowed, “You’re saying you were threatened? Then why not

name. Some kids used to pick on me for being a Schnabel girl, and with

her phone, a barrage of mean messages on

all the nasty things they’ve said. I’m really scared, Grandpa!

deepened. “What’s the deal with the test

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

said, “Off you go, I’ll handle it.”

tears

Calvin was gobsmacked!

acting chops are wasted on

Schnabel you buying

second, full of baloney like her granny.”

what’s the plan

then dialed Beckett’s number,

12:43

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been up to at school, and go

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Lambert Mansion In Tranquility

find it looked like a

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

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

had been taking hits. The

been thriving under his watch, never faced such

the

Rosenbergs sure got some nerve swiping all my stuff. If you don’t make up for our

seems like everything they touch turned to dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads. They just lost it when Vincent gave

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

it, and we didn’t even want it! Don’t think I

hung up in