The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 97

Zachary was completely lost.

What nonsense was Vincent spouting?

“What kind of gibberish are you talking about? Pull me up already! This crappy graveyard is giving me the creeps; I’m about to suffocate here!”

Who knew which jerk with no conscience tossed him in here and left just a tiny crack in the coffin, barely enough for him to breathe?

Vincent was giving Zachary even weirder looks now.

What was a perfectly good person doing lying around in a graveyard for no reason?

And to top it off, the Rosenberg family’s ancestral home was like two districts away from the Lambert family’s!

“Zachary, oh, you’re a sly one, eh? Getting people to fix up my ancestral home just to take it over for yourself, huh? Let me tell you, this graveyard belongs to my mother, and you’re going to give it back to me!”

The more Vincent thought about it, the more it made sense. Why would Milford secretly refurbish the Lambert family’s ancestral home without telling them?

It had to be this old coot Zachary eyeing the Lambert estate and graveyard, looking for a chance to snatch away their fortune hotspot!

“Are you out of your mind? I told you I have no idea how I ended up here, and now you’re getting all up in my face?”

“You think I’m a fool? Showing up in my mom’s graveyard with your mom’s ashes? Isn’t it just to sneak your relatives in here, stealing our family’s generations of good fortune?

And you had Milford work on our old house, all because of this graveyard! Is that Martin guy one of your stooges?”

“What are you blabbering about? When did I ever get my son to fix up your family’s ancestral home? Your rundown old mansion is worth fixing?”

Zachary scrambled out of the coffin, aching all over. He wasn’t exactly thrilled to see Vincent either.

Just as he was about to leave with the urn in hand, Zachary had another thought and shuffled back to the edge of the graveyard.

“You say this place has good fortune. Well, I’m here now; I might as well bury my mother here, too.”

were up to no good! You think you can scheme

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against your family?”

the Lambert family

on!” He just knew Zachary was eyeing this piece of

seeing Vincent’s reaction, this place must have top–notch fortune. If it could really bring wealth to his descendants,

thought, Zachary just plonked down

graveyard is yours, got any proof?”

no gravestones around, not even anything in the coffin to identify the

her grandma without even

there’s nothing inside, no gravestone; what makes it yours?

smack Zachary. “Oh, look at you! So you admit it; you’ve been plotting all along to snatch

worst part? The ownership of this plot

men, the two of them conspiring to take away this treasure from him.

you say it’s mine, then it’s mine, you guys can scram!” Zachary, clutching Valeria’s urn, was about to place it in the coffin, clearly

urn and hurling it down the

your mind? That’s my mother’s ashes! I’m gonna kill you!” Zachary was super close to his mom,

him around with stars in his eyes

you dare hit me? That does it!”

Belinda were freaking out on the side, wanting to break

couple took the chance to bury their urn quietly. They were old, only there for their own business; who knew where

roared, “Where did you

where your mom is; you just tossed

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in tears. “Dad, Zachary,

of the Lambert folks. “Why the tears? I’m telling you, you dreaming of marrying Milford? Forget it! As if the Rosenberg family would fancy some ragamuffin picked up from

Belinda couldn’t hold back and gave

ground all mushy from the rain, Zachary slipped, dragging Vincent

together down the