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.

knew I was out. But I need to check on something at

further, she gave Malvina a considerate look, “Let’s take a cab. Riding a bike isn’t the best idea with your injuries.”

“Sounds good.”

at South Flora Storage to find it a shadow of its former self. The aftermath of an explosion left only

phone, Malvina found an underground bunker.

‘Over here, Noella.”

bunker warily. Her assassin’s instincts alerted her to the presence of others inside–they were members of the Shadow Dragon Society.

stay out here and wait for you.” She said.

ducked into the

untimely demise of their former leader, with

those with the Grubers were either dead or

Malvina reemerged with her eyes teary; she was also

them for me. I’m rich now. With what I’ve saved, I won’t have to work a day

dilemma, “You want to take them

they’ve always looked out for me. Without them, I wouldn’t have survived the Grubers. But I don’t know if I can…”

see the Shadow Dragon Society, where her mother’s effort was laid in,

life’s gonna change if you take

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“That’s okay! What my mom could do, I can

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cool, right?”

saving me. At first, I got close to you for protection, but I do really like you, Noella. It was that damn Yvonne who made me realize I don’t

the Shadow Dragon Society is mine!”

delicate girl controlled by others, even if her heart raced at

others to shelter me, I’ll shelter myself! My fate is mine to control. Here In Imperial City, you and Elara will be both under

looking forward to the new Malvina. And you’re always welcome at our place; my mom’s already got fresh pajamas waiting

tightly. She seemed to make

did not

blast–damaged buildings while the

Noella with curiosity, “Boss, I checked out those guys. They’re loyal enough, but for Ms. Gruber to get a grip on them? That’s gonna take some doing. After all, the Shadow Dragon Society is no Sunday school, and Malvina, that pampered Ms. Gruber, will have to hustle hard to get the Society under her thumb.”

her get into any scrapes.” She