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?”

out his touch scorching due to the fever, his palm pressing

tell me, do you worry

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

squinted slightly, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips, as elusive as the

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

eyelashes fluttered as she tucked Palmer back under the covers. “Go to sleep now. You don’t have to worry about a broken

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

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 wasn’t inflamed;

seemed far more severe.

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

“Goodnight.”

over Palmer’s face, and left the

the Pollack Mansion, glanced back

wonder if Ms. Noella will question how Boss caught a fever from such

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

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

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

I know several top plastic surgeons

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

downstairs, nearly stumbled at the mention, nearly missing the last step.

10:55

“Since when did you pick up an interest in bum treatment? Change

cleared his throat to regain composure Thofessor Calvin has been studying it, so I thought Td learn a bit as well

had a solution. Sienna also

Calvin Malvina, you stay with us

at Malvina’s presence. It was as if her joining them

hostility, especially

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

having a meal here? You’m the one who

pomidge Noella had prepared, thanked her. “Thanks, Noella. Sorry to worry you, Tristan, Just a small mishap during a site inspection

for a couple of days. The place will run without you. Stay home

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