The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 212

Chapter 212

Palmer’s voice was a jumble of tones.

1.she

Noella wanted to pull her hand away, but remembering Palmer’s wrist was still wounded and any tug might cause it to bleed again, decided against it

“Palmer?”

Palmer slowly opened his eyes, his gaze foggy, but at least he was awake.

“Noella? Wasn’t I just dreaming? How come you’re here?”

Instead of answering his question, Noella picked up the water glass from the nightstand and handed it to him.

“Take your medicine”

“Alright”

Noella watched Palmer swallow his medicine and helped him lie back down.

His eyes, typically deep and impenetrable, now sparkled with a vivid luster, following her every move without shifting away even for a

moment

Feeling her cheeks heat under his gaze, Noella suddenly recalled what Annie had said earlier.

“Boss wanted to head to Polaris Star to dig up some dirt on your past. He figured if he didn’t, you would.”

Was he so set on handling dangerous matters himself just because he felt they were too perilous for her?

Gazing at the frail Palmer before her, she noticed his pallor, yet his fever made his eyes moist and vulnerable, his gaze fixed on her.

“1 seem to recall telling Annie not to disturb you, yet she still called you. Sorry for interrupting your sweet dreams.”

“Why didn’t you want me to come?”

reached out his touch scorching due to the fever,

me, do you worry

distracted on his account. But now that

his lips, as elusive as the moon still

didn’t worry about me at all, I’d be heartbroken,” Palmer said, his words

now. You don’t have to worry about

to tell whether it was

said he wouldn’t be heartbroken- did that mean… she did worry about him, even just a little

She couldn’t shake the feeling that Palmer’s fever wasn’t due to his

far

hand grasped by Palmer’s, and he pressed a burning kiss

“Goodnight.”

over Palmer’s face,

who had just left the Pollack Mansion, glanced back towards her boss’s

Noella will question how Boss caught a fever from such a minor injury? Probably

the wound was real enough, though the circumstances were somewhat convoluted. The outcome was the same,

morning, Noella yawned as she descended the stairs, only to see Sienna holding Malvina with a face full of

her greatest trial in life being a tumultuous mother–in–law relationship, which now seemed to have reached a sweet

hurt, sweetheart? Don’t worry, I know several top plastic

Sienna, Dr. Schnabel said he can take care of it.”

downstairs, nearly stumbled at the mention, nearly

10:55

pick up an interest

Calvin has been studying it, so I thought

had a solution. Sienna also relaxed.

Malvina, you stay with us for a while.

was as if her joining them at the table was

Palraer at the breakfast table, the Schnabel brothers‘ eyes held a hint of hostility, especially when they saw their sister helping him with his food due to his

Pollack isn’t well,

with Palmer having a meal here? You’m the one who talks too much! Palmer, don’t mind him. Have some

thanked her. “Thanks, Noella. Sorry to worry you, Tristan, Just a small mishap during a site inspection at work,

that you’re hurt, take a break from the company for a couple of days. The place will run without you. Stay

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