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.

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

similar recently. Without prying further, she gave Malvina a

“Sounds good.”

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

on her phone, Malvina found an

‘Over here, Noella.”

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

out here and wait for you.” She said.

nodded and ducked into the entryway, vanishing

Shadow Dragon Society had splintered years ago after the untimely demise of their

those with the Grubers were either dead or in

her eyes teary; she was

I won’t have to work a day in my life! But…” Her mood dipped, eyes swimming

saw through her dilemma, “You want to take

looked out for me. Without them, I wouldn’t have survived the Grubers. But I don’t know

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

life’s gonna change if you

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What my mom could do, I can do too. Besides, being

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cool, right?”

box and mused again, “And I don’t want to be loser as well. Thanks for saving me. At first, I got close to you for

City, the Shadow Dragon Society is mine!”

girl controlled by others, even if her heart raced at the sight of

to be like Noella. She grabbed Noella and 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

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

Noella tightly. She seemed to make some kind of decision before she turned back into the bunker.

time, she did

South Flora Storage, overlooking the blast–damaged buildings

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

let her get into any