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?”

to the fever, his palm pressing hotly against Noella’s cheek.

me, do you worry about

yet he didn’t want her distracted on his account. But now that she was here, he

lips, as elusive

then found out you didn’t worry about me at all, I’d be heartbroken,” Palmer said,

under the covers. “Go to sleep now. You don’t have

hard to tell whether it was fatigue or happiness that brought a smile to Palmer’s face

mean… she did worry about him, even just

as she watched Palmer drift off to sleep again. She couldn’t shake the feeling that Palmer’s fever wasn’t due to his wound, but rather from catching a chill. His wound

injuries seemed far more

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

“Goodnight.”

quickly withdrew her hand, yanked the covers over Palmer’s face, and left the room in

just left the Pollack Mansion, glanced back

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

circumstances were somewhat convoluted. The outcome was the same,

she descended the stairs, only to see Sienna holding Malvina with a face full of motherly love.

to have reached a sweet resolution. Seeing the burn scars on Malvina, Sienna’s tears flowed with

several top plastic surgeons who can fix

Sienna, Dr. Schnabel said he can take

stumbled at the mention, nearly missing the last step.

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questioned, “Since when did you pick up an interest in bum treatment? Change of research topic?

Calvin has been studying it, so I

that Calvin had a solution.

stay with us for a while. I’ll cook

presence. It was as if her joining them at the table was the

breakfast table, the Schnabel brothers‘ eyes held a hint of hostility, especially when they saw their sister helping

back his imitation “If Mr. Pollack isn’t well, he should

him on the back, annoyed “Quit your sniping! What’s wrong with Palmer having a meal here? You’m the one who talks too much!

thanked her. “Thanks, Noella. Sorry to worry you, Tristan, Just

Palmer. “Now that you’re hurt, take a break from the company for a couple of days. The place will

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