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

do you worry about me?”

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

on his lips, as elusive as the moon still hanging outside the

at all, I’d be heartbroken,” Palmer said, his words blending jest with delirium, his voice thick with

the covers. “Go to sleep now. You don’t have to worry about a broken heart. Yours is

was hard to tell whether it was fatigue

did that mean… she did worry about him, even just a little

due to his wound, but rather from catching a chill. His wound wasn’t inflamed; the lever seemed more like the result of

seemed far

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

“Goodnight.”

over Palmer’s face, and left the room in a

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

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

wound was real enough, though the circumstances were somewhat convoluted. The outcome was the same, wasn’t it?

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

a tumultuous mother–in–law relationship, which now seemed to have reached a sweet resolution.

worry, I know several top plastic surgeons who can fix you right up!*

Dr. Schnabel said he can

at the mention, nearly missing the last step.

10:55

up an interest in bum treatment? Change of research

regain composure Thofessor Calvin has been studying it, so I

a solution. Sienna also relaxed.

beats Professor Calvin Malvina, you stay with us for a while. I’ll

presence. It was as if her joining them at

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

“If Mr. Pollack isn’t well, he should stay in the hospital

back, annoyed “Quit your sniping! What’s wrong with Palmer having a meal here? You’m the one who talks too much! Palmer, don’t

accepting the pomidge Noella had prepared, thanked her. “Thanks, Noella. Sorry to worry you, Tristan, Just

couple of days. The place

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