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.

did. He’s busy with a patient who slit the 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 with Ulrich’s lectures as a

she gave Malvina a considerate look, “Let’s take a cab. Riding a bike isn’t

“Sounds good.”

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

phone,

‘Over here, Noella.”

the presence

wait

the

after the untimely demise of their former leader, with some following the

with the Grubers were either dead or

Malvina reemerged with her

With what I’ve saved, I won’t have to work a day in my life!

dilemma, “You want to take them with you?*

wouldn’t have survived the Grubers. But I don’t know

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

gonna change if you take

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cool, right?”

for protection, but I do really like you, Noella. It was that damn Yvonne who made me realize I don’t want to be a

City, the Shadow Dragon Society

be a delicate girl controlled by others, even if her heart

pressed her still bandaged face against hers, “I’ve figured it all out! Instead of waiting for others to shelter me, I’ll shelter myself! My fate is mine to control. Here In Imperial City, you and Elara will

to the new Malvina. And you’re always welcome at our

seemed to make some kind of decision before she turned

did not return.

overlooking the blast–damaged buildings while the police continued their investigation in the distance.

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

on her–don’t let her