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!”

officer pointed at the screen, a look of incredulity on his

you? Didn’t you roll out

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very person who had been pushing his wheelchair had stayed out of the camera’s view. He remembered now how he

of sight.

setup all along!

had happened to them. All they knew was they’d blacked

sent shivers down his spine. The girl was nothing like she used

become twisted after we cast her out! We must go to Emerald County, find

still fixated on the compensation from Emerald County. He had learned that the payouts were per capita,

couldn’t believe that once they found Noella’s biological family, they would refuse to share the wealth.

Star Lab.

reviewed the data sprawled before

lab and the one Elara managed,

might be a hiccup at the Emerald County

away the report, “No need,

also be an opportunity to

them swiftly.

girls getting along so well; before Noella returned to the family, she had worried about potential friction between her and Elara, which would’ve upset her regardless of who was at fault. Now, the sight of

are many gifts for Elara; she loves the

and pick

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her mother still fussing about getting Elara’s favorite pastries to take

the living room,

of anything else we should send with you? Poor Elara,

in that lab; she’s

even more items. To the

grandfather’s napping, so I won’t wake

back in a

with gifts, got