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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was a fail, the other

handwriting; the failing one’s gotta be hers, and the other must be a

Plus, 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.”

and saw Calvin, smug as a

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

“Yvonne, explain this.”

paid up, so how

school, stopped me from attending classes, I had

you were threatened? Then why

used to pick on me for being a Schnabel girl,

phone, a barrage of mean messages

scared, Grandpa!

deepened. “What’s the deal with the

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

“Off you go, I’ll

tears still

Calvin was gobsmacked!

chops are wasted on

you buying her

second, full of baloney like her

plan

a moment, then dialed Beckett’s

12:43

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

“Will do, Grandpa.”

In Tranquility City

it looked like a

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

Briony sneaking into his study more than once, filching a bunch of the Lambert family documents and passing them

taking hits. The

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

the Rosenberg

got some nerve swiping all my stuff. If you don’t make up for our company’s losses,

Rosenberg family’s 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 when

think you’re some kind of business whiz? How do you have the nerve to come begging us, the Rosenberg family, for

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