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

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

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

his phone. “Yvonne, to

“Right away. Grandpa.”

into the room and saw Calvin, smug as

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

“Yvonne, explain this.”

paid up, so how come the

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

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

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

whipped out her phone, a barrage of mean messages on display.

nasty things they’ve said. I’m really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy

the deal with the

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

you go, I’ll handle

tears

Calvin was gobsmacked!

are

Schnabel you buying

a second, full of baloney

plan for this mess?”

for a moment, then dialed Beckett’s

12:43

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at school, and go easy on the hired

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Lambert Mansion In Tranquility City

looked like a burglar had been through it, a total

in the study after a bid document went missing last time.

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

taking hits. The Rosenbergs were stabbing them

his watch, never faced such a

dialed up the Rosenberg family.

you don’t make up for

they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads.

Who the hell would want your family’s junk? You really think you’re some kind of business whiz? How

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