The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 205

She was intrigued by the Schnabels instead!

Malvina never expected that her casual inquiries about the Schnabel family, combined with her polite Interest in Ulrich’s medical work, would lead him to believe she was fascinated by the field of medicine.

Did she really look like someone who could understand all those medical terms?

Luckily for her, a nurse poked her head in to summon the ever–chatty Ulrich, “Dr. Schnabel, there’s an emergency patient!”

“I’m on it.” Ulrich dashed off, and Malvina seized the moment to toss aside the stack of medical journals he’d handed her while taking a deep breath in relief.

Beside her was the shiny new smartphone Noella had given her, a perfect replacement for the one that had perished in the fire.

She had no idea how Noella had managed to restore everything from that old phone. If Malvina hadn’t confirmed its demise herself, she would have suspected this was her original phone.

The Schnabels were truly a family of geniuses.

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Nervously biting her nails, Malvina scrolled through the contacts in her phone and dialed Noella’s number.

Noella had thought of everything–not only had she restored the phone’s original content, but she had also saved several important numbers: her own, Elara’s, and even Ulrich’s.

“Hey, Noella, you up for hanging out?” she called and asked.

“I’ll come pick you up.” Noella answered.

“Perfect! I’ll wait for you at the hospital entrance.”

Half an hour later, Noella zoomed up to the hospital on her motorcycle, looking every inch the rebel in her black leather jacket.

Taking off her helmet, she shook out her tousled hair as her strands were dancing in the breeze.

Malvina hobbled over, swamped in an oversized coat that clearly belonged to Ulrich.

“Did you sneak out without telling Ulrich?” Noella asked.

wrist. And he’d worry if he knew I was out. But I need to check on something at South Flora Storage.” Malvina was clearly fed up

wearing something similar recently. Without prying further, she gave Malvina a considerate look, “Let’s take a cab. Riding a

“Sounds good.”

of its former self. The aftermath of an explosion left only a few unstable structures standing surrounded

coordinates on her phone, Malvina

‘Over here, Noella.”

warily. Her assassin’s instincts alerted her to the presence of others

here and wait for

ducked into the entryway,

of their former leader, with some

Grubers were either

less than ten minutes, Malvina reemerged with her eyes teary; she was also

for me. I’m rich now. With what I’ve saved, I won’t have to work a day in my life! But…” Her mood dipped, eyes swimming with conflict

“You want to take them with you?*

they’ve always looked out for me. Without them, I wouldn’t have survived the Grubers. But

couldn’t bear to see the Shadow Dragon Society, where

you take them.” Noella reminded

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breaking through her face, “That’s okay! What my mom could do, I can do too. Besides, being a mob boss is

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cool, right?”

“And I don’t want to be loser as well. Thanks for saving me. At first, I got close to you for protection, but

the Shadow

by others, even

her still bandaged face against hers, “I’ve figured it all out! Instead of waiting for others to shelter me,

to the new Malvina. And you’re always welcome at our place; my mom’s already

so sweet! I’ll definitely come over!” Malvina hugged Noella tightly. She seemed to make some kind of

she did

the ruins of South Flora Storage, overlooking the blast–damaged buildings

for Ms. Gruber to get a grip on them? That’s gonna take some doing. After all, the Shadow Dragon Society is no Sunday

eye on her–don’t let her get into any scrapes.”