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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the other aced it.

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

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

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

“Right away. Grandpa.”

and saw Calvin, smug as a bug in

off Marcel about her being a whiz kid

“Yvonne, explain this.”

flummoxed! She hadn’t paid up, so how come the hired gun

at school, stopped me from attending classes, I had to prove my chops this way. But

you were threatened? Then why not

was 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 folks

out her phone, a barrage

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

the deal with the

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

go,

relieved, tears

Calvin was gobsmacked!

acting chops are

Schnabel you buying her

a second, full of baloney like

the plan for

moment, then dialed Beckett’s

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up to at school, and go easy on the hired gun. Handle with kid

“Will do, Grandpa.”

Mansion In Tranquility

it looked like a burglar had

the study after a bid document went missing

he caught Briony sneaking into his study more than once, filching a bunch of the Lambert family documents

taking hits.

watch,

dialed up the

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

turned to dust, and they were all a bunch of jinxed hot–heads. They just lost it when Vincent gave them an earful out of the

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 the nerve to come begging us, the Rosenberg family, for

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