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!”

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

Didn’t you roll out on your

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that moment, Vincent’s heart sank. The very person who had been pushing his wheelchair had stayed out of the camera’s view. He remembered now how he had

of sight.

a setup all along!

together with Vincent, couldn’t piece together what had happened to them. All they knew was they’d blacked out and woken up in the middle of nowhere, nearly

reminder of Noella’s last look it sent shivers down his spine. The girl was nothing like she

was all Noella’s doing. She must’ve become twisted after

compensation from Emerald County. He had learned that the payouts were per capita, and with Noella’s large family, including four brothers without

insolvency. He couldn’t believe that once they found Noella’s biological family, they would

Polaris Star Lab.

brow as she reviewed the

and the one Elara managed, and the numbers suggested there were

by these figures, there might be a hiccup at the Emerald County lab. Should we send

away the report, “No need, I’ll

Emerald County, and it would also be an opportunity to inspect the Schnabel family

resolve them swiftly.

the family, she had worried about potential friction between her and Elara, which would’ve upset her regardless of who was at

for Elara; she loves the pickles from home, so let’s send her some

swing by and

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with her mother still fussing about getting Elara’s favorite

piles of packages in the living room,

you think of anything else we should send with you? Poor

lab; she’s gotten so

Sienna grabbed even more items. To the uninitiated, it would seem as though Noella was moving out.

napping, so I

back in a couple of days.”

Noella, laden with gifts, got