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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a fail, the other

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

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

his phone. “Yvonne, to

“Right away. Grandpa.”

walked into the room and saw Calvin, smug as a

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

“Yvonne, explain this.”

flummoxed! She hadn’t paid up, so how come the hired gun

at school, stopped me from attending classes, I had to prove my chops this way. But I know she didn’t mean any harm, just green–eyed

were threatened? Then why not tell me?”

called a bully, using my family’s name. Some kids used to pick on me for being a Schnabel girl, and with my

out her phone, a barrage of mean messages on

really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy on them.

frown deepened. “What’s the deal with the test then?”

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

“Off you go, I’ll handle

tears still streaming.

Calvin was gobsmacked!

acting chops are

buying her story?”

a second, full of baloney like her

the plan for this

then dialed Beckett’s number, giving him the lowdown.

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school, and go easy on the hired gun. Handle with kid gloves!”

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Lambert Mansion In

into his study to find it looked like a burglar

study after a bid document

once, filching a bunch of the Lambert family documents and passing them to the Rosenberg family.

been taking hits. The Rosenbergs were stabbing them in the back!

under his watch, never faced such a rough

the Rosenberg family.

If you don’t make up for our company’s losses,

dust, and they were all a bunch of

you out of your mind, Vincent? Who the hell would want your family’s junk? You really think you’re some kind of business whiz? How

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

family hung up in no