The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 38

Ashlyn squinted her eyes. lying on the bed and looking all high and mighty at Noella, who had Rust walked in through the door. She snorted coldly. “Do you even know what time it is? Do I even exist to you anymore?”

Noella replied with indifference. “It’s seven in the morning. Can’t you tell the time? I thought second graders learned that. Maybe I should get you one of those talking digital clocks tomorrow.”

The wall clock was right there beside Ashlyn’s bed, impossible to miss. So, she must’ve forgotten how to tell time.

Ashlyn was so angry her chest heaved, and she was about to lose grip on her prayer beads!

“Great, just great, you little brat, trying to send me to an early grave, huh? I asked you here to take care of me, not to act like some spoiled princess.”

Noella was baffled. “Grandma, your mood swings are kind of intense. Should I get a neurologist. to check on you?”

Ashlyn was speechless.

Looking at Noella’s face, which bore a 60-70% resemblance to Sienna, Ashlyn’s mouth and nose almost twisted together in anger!

“Don’t you think you’ll have an easy time under my roof! Come here, I want an apple. Peel one for me.”

Noella sat down, picked up an apple from the fruit basket, and peeled it for Ashlyn.

No sooner had she finished peeling than Ashlyn’s eyebrows shot up. “What kind of peeling is this? You’ve taken half the flesh off! What am I supposed to eat?”

In Noella’s other hand was the apple skin, thin as a cicada’s wing. “If you don’t fancy the flesh, you can nibble on the skin, though I wouldn’t recommend it.”

Ashlyn was speechless again.

Country bumpkins like her surely had done plenty of rough and unsophisticated farm work. Peeling apples was something ladies and misses of high society would never dream of doing themselves.

Ashlyn glared at Noella with contempt in her eyes.

“I’ve lost my appetite. Get me a glass of water. I want it hot.”

“Sure thing.”

Noella stood up, poured a glass of water, and handed it to Ashlyn.

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“You damned girl, are you trying to scald me to death?”

Noella took out a thermometer. “The water’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit. If that’s too hot for you, maybe it’s time to consult a psychiatrist.”

Ashlyn was speechless.

Who the heck would carry around a thermometer for food?

me nuts! Is this how your parents raised you? Ha,

compliment, Grandma. I think I’m pretty

was speechless again.

child was immune to both carrots and

for today. Just seeing your face

“Alright.”

so compliant, headed out to the nurse’s station and

the medicine box, Noella’s brow furrowed slightly. “Is this all

are additions she insisted on. We just

Noella was confused.

Self–prescribed?

just add their own meds

nurse looked distressed. “She warned us not to tell Dr. Calvin, threatening to complain about us if we did. We can’t afford

character was something Noella

her wheelhouse, and these fresh–faced nurses were no match for

it. You go on

these meds! But it was evident that the medical staff didn’t arrange them; it was

Noella pulled out her phone

Can you swing by Imperial West Hospital?”

finally decided to call me! I’m on my

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more, but Noella hung up and promptly blacklisted him.

simply too chatty for her

your

sat up, took the medicine from Noella’s hand, and eyed

meds? They look different from what Yvonne

was at a loss for words. Now, she suspected that Ashlyn had a

the security footage: I brought

grunted. “I doubt you have the guts for that. Just so you know, as long as I’m alive,

calmly. “But I go there

else would she get home?

was nearly choked with rage!

mother! Just looking at

Ashlyn started bossing

to the bathroom; I

you become paralyzed?”

you implying? Are you

their own. If

but to haul herself up to use the

the sweet and

bathroom, Ashlyn started clutching her heart and sighing dramatically.

is so hard, even the gods can’t bear to watch…

you planning

backache miraculously disappeared as she sat bolt upright,