The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 148

Walden’s tone carried an edge of impatience. “What is it already?”

Clutching the hem of her skirt. Yvonne mustered the courage to lock eyes with Walden and spoke deliberately. “Have you ever heard of Nourishment Pill, Walden?”

Walden sat bolt upright, disbelief etching his features as he looked at Yvonne.

“Nourishment Pill? As in the legendary black market panacea? That’s what you’re offering me?” Yvonne’s spirits lifted at his reaction.

“I can get my hands on the Nourishment Pill. If you’re interested, Walden, maybe we can still talk business. I hear Mr. Arthur Gruber hasn’t been feeling well. Imagine the boost to your status in the Gruber family if you could present him with this elixir.”

If he could secure the pill for Arthur, his standing within the Gruber family would be unassailable. A fanatic gleam touched Walden’s eyes.

“Deal.”

At a local police station in Imperial City.

Vincent, wheelchair–bound, gazed anxiously at the officer before him.

“Officer, we’re telling the truth! I was attacked, our whole family nearly died out there – you can’t just ignore this!”

“Do you have a lawyer?”

A lawyer? Since when did reporting an assault require legal representation? Wasn’t their battered appearance evidence enough? Why would they need a lawyer?

The money Vincent had wouldn’t stretch to afford a defense attorney, not to mention the legal fees from his previous settlement talks with Martin were still outstanding.

To think that he, once a district’s wealthiest man, had fallen to such straits made Vincent

seethe.

The officer, growing impatient, said, “I’ve asked you repeatedly, and you can’t provide a clear account of what transpired, only that you were assaulted, while the surveillance footage appears normal.”

Vincent blurted out, “The cameras! Yes, it was the man who pushed me out! He’s the one who

hit me!”

pointed at the screen, a look of incredulity on his face.

Didn’t you roll out on

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been pushing his wheelchair had stayed out of the camera’s

of sight.

a setup all along!

they knew was they’d blacked out and woken up in the middle

last look it sent

station, Vincent turned to Belinda, “This was all Noella’s doing. She must’ve become twisted after we cast her out! We must go to Emerald County, find her kin!”

had learned that the payouts were per capita, and with

of insolvency. He couldn’t believe that once they found Noella’s biological

Star Lab.

her brow as she reviewed the data sprawled before

the one Elara managed, and

figures, there might be a hiccup at the Emerald County lab. Should

tucked away the report, “No

Elara a visit to Emerald County, and it would also be an opportunity to inspect the

resolve them

about potential friction between her and Elara, which would’ve upset her regardless of who was at fault. Now, the sight of their closeness made her feel like she was the happiest mother in the world. After all, she

for you. And there are many gifts for Elara; she loves the pickles from home, so

I’ll swing by and pick them

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call with her mother still fussing

the living room, and Sienna was concerned it

think of anything else we

lab; she’s gotten so thin.”

response, Sienna grabbed even more items. To the uninitiated, it would seem as though

grandfather’s napping, so I won’t wake

be back in a

family car waited nearby. Noella, laden with gifts, got in and headed for Emerald County.