The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 54

Chapter 54

Imperial West Hospital.

Ashlyn was lying in bed, eyes shut.

Yvonne came rushing in, bawling her eyes out, and collapsed onto Ashlyn’s bed in a flood of tears!

“Granny, you’ve gotta save me! Grandpa says he’s gonna hand me over!”

“What’s the scoop? Your grandpa’s not lost his marbles; where’s he handing you off to?”

Yvonne pulled out the sob story she had prepped, crying her heart out.

“Granny, I’ve been pinching pennies to buy Nourishment Pills for Grandpa and Grandpa Sexton, but they say it’s no good. You’re taking Nourishment Pills yourself, Granny, you know best how awesome they are! I blew half a year’s pocket money on Nourishment Pills for Grandpa, and now he’s talking about handing me over to the Pollack family’s legal team, saying I’ve gotta do time… Granny, if I’m gone, who’s gonna look after you?”

Hearing this, Ashlyn started to panic. “Yvonne, you still got enough Nourishment Pills for me. right?”

If Yvonne got snatched by the Pollack folks, at least she wouldn’t be left high and dry without her meds!

“Yeah, you haven’t taken today’s yet, Granny. Have it now!”

With Yvonne’s help, Ashlyn took her Nourishment Pill, visibly relaxing, and with the scripture reading in the background, she began to drift off, losing focus on what was in front of her.

“Granny, you’ve gotta help me out. I’m your one and only granddaughter.”

Ashlyn, groggy, nodded along, echoing her words.

Yvonne tucked Ashlyn in with a smirk, pride written all over her face.

If Sexton got dosed with Nourishment Pills, maybe he’d start dancing to her tune just like Ashlyn!

In Marcel’s room, Calvin was holding two test papers.

“Mr. Schnabel, does your family have two Yvonnes or something? I mean, any relatives with that name?”

Marcel was stumped, putting down his chess piece.

“I got two identical test papers here, both with Yvonne’s name on them, check this out.”

“Let me see.”

On both papers, Yvonne’s name was written clear as day!

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a fail, the other

handwriting; the failing one’s gotta be

bunch of teachers have been saying they haven’t seen Yvonne since the

brow furrowed, reaching for his phone. “Yvonne, to my room.”

“Right away. Grandpa.”

Calvin, smug as a bug in a rug.

a whiz kid in medicine, about time he started giving her some

“Yvonne, explain this.”

paid up, so how come

at school, stopped me from attending classes, I had to

eyes narrowed, “You’re saying you were threatened? Then why

pick on me for being a Schnabel girl, and with my folks and bro so busy, I didn’t wanna stir the pot.”

a barrage of

the nasty things they’ve said. I’m really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy on them. They didn’t mean it.”

“What’s the deal with the

high score’s mine, even though I never set foot in school, I’ve been secretly studying outside the classroom. I’d never let the Schnabel

said, “Off you go, I’ll handle it.”

tears still streaming.

Calvin was gobsmacked!

are wasted

you buying her

full of baloney like

what’s the plan for

a moment, then dialed Beckett’s number, giving him the lowdown.

12:43

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out what Yvonne’s been up to at school, and go easy on

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Lambert Mansion In Tranquility City

into his study to find it looked like a burglar had been through it, a

the study

once, filching a bunch of the Lambert family documents and passing them to the Rosenberg family.

family had been taking hits. The

had been thriving under his watch, never faced such a rough patch

dialed up the

got some nerve swiping all my stuff. If you don’t make

dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads. They

your family’s junk? You really think you’re some kind of business whiz? How do you have the nerve to come begging us, the Rosenberg family, for money?”

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