The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 40

Word was out that the Schnabel family’s daughter was throwing a birthday bash, and the whole upper–crust circle was buzzing about it!

Briony got wind of it, too, and looking at the extravaganza posted by some social media influencers on her phone, she was so green with envy she could barely straighten her face.

“Mom, what’s the big deal with this Schnabel family anyway? They throw a birthday party for their daughter and casually snap up Serene Haven’s top–tier penthouse. I heard they dropped a whopping 1.5 billion on the purchase and the decor.”

Belinda peeled off her face mask and massaged the wrinkles by her eyes.

“The Schnabels are no small potatoes, sweetheart. They’re top dogs In Imperial City. Honey, did you square things away with Milford about tying the knot?”

Briony blushed and nodded.

“Yeah, Milford said once he’s back in tip–top shape, we’ll get engaged.”

“That’s my girl!”

Milford was such a catch, and Belinda wouldn’t rest easy until he was officially part of the family.

Just thinking about Milford’s tenderness made Briony utterly contented..

Vincent had just walked in when Briony pounced on him. “Dad, I wanna buy a necklace for when I get engaged.”

“Sure thing, pumpkin. Dad’s got you covered!”

“Thanks, Dad! Three million should do it!”

Vincent was flabbergasted. “What kind of necklace costs three million? Briony, our money doesn’t grow on trees. Don’t splurge like that or try to keep up with the Joneses. Every penny we have, I’ve worked my fingers to the bone for!”

Briony felt wronged to her core.

Why should Ms. Schnabel get to flaunt necklaces worth several hundred million dollars at just a birthday party?

And her spending three million on a necklace was considered wasteful?

Vincent’s phone started ringing.

“Mr. Lambert, our latest project tanked, and the losses are hefty…”

“Oh, flops happen. What’s the word from North Peak Finance?”

The failed investment didn’t faze Vincent; he was used to his ventures bombing eight or ten

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year. With North Peak Finance and South Mountain Financial backing him, the Lambert

secretary’s voice wavered. “Other companies have cut ties with us.”

go. A bunch of snobs! With North Peak and South Mountain behind the Lambert Group, what’s there to worry

Peak Finance, a rising star in the domestic financing scene, had quickly carved out a niche in the market

notch below the big monopolies in Imperial City, had opened an oil mine in the North

with the Lambert Group, there was no shortage of

Mountain are suing us. They say our investment losses

leaped off the couch

South Mountain lost

but they had never

West Ocean Media is demanding 300 million dollars in damages, claiming our

big–name production house in

movies, using West Ocean talent and directors, but he had replaced a few leads with his pet models, relegating West Ocean’s

Why are they asking

compensation, saying that the

Vincent was stunned!

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launch his pets into stardom and save himself some cash.

Get the lawyers on it! I want

some sort of mistake!

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be half–asleep; otherwise, why would he be bombarded

with a lawsuit from Jasper’s firm for

about to pass out on the spot!

docs they could

were everywhere; any case worth its salt was

a

document cost a hundred

teeth. “Get our legal eagles on it. If we have to pay, we pay. Get finance

Lambert, about that money you said you’d send to fix up roads and signal towers back home, finance has already wired it out. We’re a bit tight on funds right now.”

I ever say I’d

backwater place? No media would

that!

all over the web! I

hastily hung up the call and hit