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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fail, the other aced

the failing one’s gotta be hers, and the

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

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

“Right away. Grandpa.”

into the room and saw Calvin, smug as a bug

tipped off Marcel about her being a whiz kid

“Yvonne, explain this.”

was utterly flummoxed! She hadn’t paid up, so how come the hired gun still took the

me at school, stopped me from attending classes, I had to prove my chops

were threatened? Then why not tell me?”

scared of being called a bully, using my family’s name. Some kids used to pick on me for being a Schnabel girl, and with my

her phone, a barrage of mean messages

I’m really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy on them. They didn’t mean

deal with the test then?”

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

said, “Off you go, I’ll handle

left relieved, tears still streaming.

Calvin was gobsmacked!

chops are wasted

you buying

a second, full of baloney like her

what’s the plan

moment, then dialed Beckett’s number, giving

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been up to at school, and go easy

“Will do, Grandpa.”

In Tranquility

find it looked like a burglar had been through it, a total

been savvy enough to install cameras in the study after a bid document went missing

a bunch

the Lambert family had been taking hits. The

under his watch, never faced such a rough patch

the

If you don’t make up for our company’s losses, consider yourselves sued!”

been having a rough patch lately. It seems like everything they touch turned to dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads. They just lost it

you out of your mind, Vincent? Who the hell would want your family’s junk? You really think you’re some kind of business whiz? How do you have

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