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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a fail, the other aced

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

Plus, a bunch of teachers have been saying they haven’t

brow furrowed, reaching for his phone. “Yvonne,

“Right away. Grandpa.”

into the room and saw Calvin, smug

a whiz kid in medicine, about time he started giving

“Yvonne, explain this.”

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

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

were threatened?

Some kids used to pick on me for being a Schnabel girl, and

a barrage of mean messages

are all the nasty things they’ve said. I’m really scared, Grandpa! But please, go easy on them. They

deal with the test

score’s mine, even though I never set foot in school, I’ve been

go,

relieved, tears still

Calvin was gobsmacked!

acting chops are wasted on medicine!

buying her story?”

for a second, full of baloney like her granny.”

plan for this

pondered for a moment, then dialed Beckett’s

12:43

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Yvonne’s been up to at school, and go easy on the hired gun. Handle

“Will do, Grandpa.”

In Tranquility City

looked like a burglar had

to install cameras in the study after a bid document

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

wonder the Lambert family had been taking hits. The Rosenbergs were stabbing them in the back!

thriving under his watch, never faced such

up the

all my stuff. If you

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 Vincent gave them an earful out

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

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