The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 46

Tristan has no idea how vast Marcel’s connections were!

Yvonne’s eyes nearly popped out of her head when she saw that mountain of gifts worth at king’s ransom!

A ghostly voice whispered in Yvonne’s ear.

“Yvonne, where do you think you’re going?”

“Ah! Elara, you scared the bejeezus out of me!”

Elara was so close to Yvonne’s ear when she spoke that Yvonne practically jumped out of her skin!

“Cut the act. You’re the one who leaked that video, right? You showed it to me before. Don’t you dare say someone swiped your phone and played it at Noella’s birthday party on purpose!”

Yvonne was crying up a storm, all choked up. “I was just looking out for Noella! What if she’s got a crush on someone and doesn’t want to marry Mr. Pollack? I can’t bear to see her unhappy! Elara, how could you think I did it on purpose?”

Elara frowned at Yvonne, making her squirm with guilt.

“Elara, Grandma’s in the hospital with no one to look after her. I’m heading there now, so can we talk about this when I get back, please?”

“Go ahead.

Elara watched Yvonne beat a hasty retreat, her eyes scrutinizing her every move.

Something about Yvonne just didn’t sit right with her.

After the party, Tristan turned to Palmer. “Didn’t you say you had something to discuss with

us?”

The four Schnabel sons were on high alert, ready to bounce Palmer if he even hinted at stealing their sister away.

“It’s my granddad; he’s hoping Noella would come to see him. And someone from the Schnabel family bought some trending searches that were harmful to both our families. I’ve dealt with it. but you still have the right to know.”

Tristan tensed up. “What trending searches?”

Annie handed over a phone, respectfully saying, “Mr. Schnabel, it was Miss Yvonne who bought the searches, claiming she’s the only daughter of the Schnabel family.”

“Shoot, how could I forget about that Yvonne girl?” Tristan looked around but couldn’t spot Yvonne anywhere. “What was she thinking, buying that kind of trending search? Thank

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goodness Mr. Pollack caught it in time, otherwise our families‘ reputations would’ve been trashed. I disown her; she’s at best a granddaughter my mother took in.”

her mind gets muddled. As for your grandfather wanting to see Noella, that’s easy. Noella visits her

grandfather and wouldn’t back out now just because

I’ll go

you up: I live next door, so we’re neighbors now.”

bought a place in Serene Haven, he never would’ve bought a house for Noella there. He should’ve bought

Mansion, Tranquility

clutched her phone, green with envy as she watched Ms. Schnabel’s birthday party. being livestreamed worldwide! Any old

month.

her entrance, the stream froze, leaving Briony

this be

the corner of the frame holding hands

doing at the

sneered at the screen.

Noella, using her youth to snag an old geezer… She’ll get her legs broken once his family finds

felt it was bad luck and quickly turned off

study, swiped a few documents, and

Schnabel brothers‘ study, the four of them plus

Palmer’s genuinely smitten

won’t allow her to marry off so soon! Not before she’s at least thirty!”

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and Dad and Grandpa would kill

said, “Thinking he can marry our little sister

see if they’ve got any dirty laundry. Can’t have Noella marrying

meaningful looks, the seriousness

sister getting married soon had them all up in arms!

said, “What if–and I just mean

or not, we gotta

the world. They had to be the ones

in Noella’s

getting the usual barrage of texts from him asking where she was, if she needed a lift, how her day was. and if she had any new missions or whatever.

blowing up her phone

into her block list and turned

from you. Thank you

Hector replied.

month to check in on you. Heard the Gemstone

you up

you then.]

were in the chat–how many of them were actually going to show up in Imperial City to try their luck with

looking