Chapter 23: The Alpha Pups
Moana

As I was drying off my hands on the plush hand towel, I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder.

It was Kelly.

“Oh… You scared me,” I said, taking a step backwards. “Do you need something?”

“Why haven’t you been doing your job?” she asked abruptly, her voice somewhat shrill. She seemed incredibly irritated, and her face was a bit red from alcohol.

“Um… Excuse me?” I asked.

a pushup bra through her almost-sheer dress, and it wasn’t working. In fact, now that I thought of it, I had hardly seen her eat anything at the luncheon the other day or at the banquet just now. It made me wonder if it was a regular thing for her to refuse food, which made me sorry

poking her index finger into the center of my sternum. “You’re basically just a glorified maid whose only duty is

blinked, taken aback by

snarled. “When

attempted to step around Kelly, but she moved with me and stood in my way. She had her hands on

Verona,” she said. “She doesn’t need you, but I know someone else who

confused by what Kelly seemed to be getting at, as she held up her hand in front of her face and inspected her nails. “There are children here who need watching, nanny,” she said, glancing up at me over her nails with an almost evil look on her face. “Do

at the door. “Well, I promised Edrick I’d stay with him

that he doesn’t care, so long as you’re preoccupied

voice quivering slightly as I felt my face flush hot with embarrassment. “I wasn’t

turning on her heel and heading for

also didn’t want to see Edrick at the moment if that was what he was

essentially making me jog to keep up with her so that I didn’t get lost in this maze of a mansion. If I was being honest, I wasn’t sure how I would find my way back to

corner in a flash of long

sake of keeping my job. If Edrick really thought that I was trying to sleep with his own brother after sleeping with him and becoming his employee, then it would also be a risk to talk back to his childhood best friend.

in the center, but it was much further from the banquet hall. In fact, it was so dark outside now that we were away from the glow of the party that I could hardly see,

here we are,” Kelly said, gesturing with a condescending flourish toward the two children who were standing in the

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