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 aced it.

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

a bunch of teachers have been saying they haven’t seen Yvonne since the term started!”

his phone. “Yvonne, to my

“Right away. Grandpa.”

room and saw Calvin, smug as a

Marcel about her being a whiz kid in medicine, about time

“Yvonne, explain this.”

paid

rough! Even though she bullied me at school, stopped me from attending classes, I had to prove my chops this way. But I know she didn’t mean any harm, just green–eyed over the Schnabel

narrowed, “You’re saying you were threatened? Then why not

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

barrage of mean messages on

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

the deal

though I never set foot in school, I’ve been secretly studying outside

go, I’ll handle

left relieved, tears

Calvin was gobsmacked!

acting chops are wasted

you buying her

second, full of

the plan for this mess?”

pondered for a moment, then dialed Beckett’s number,

12:43

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been up to at school, and go

“Will do, Grandpa.”

In

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

the study after a bid document went missing

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

the Lambert family had been taking hits.

had been thriving under his watch, never faced such

dialed up the Rosenberg family.

stuff. If you don’t make up for our company’s losses,

like everything they touch turned to dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads. They

junk? You really think you’re some kind of

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