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.

eyes abrasively, folding her thin arms across her small chest. I was never much of the type to judge other women negatively for their bodies, but it was apparent that she was wearing 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

my sternum. “You’re basically just a glorified maid whose only duty is to play with

blinked, taken aback by Kelly’s rude

me,” she snarled. “When someone

minutes socializing when Ella is with her grandmother.” I attempted to step around Kelly, but she moved with me and stood in my way. She

she said. “She doesn’t need

as she held up her hand in front of her face and inspected her nails. “There are children here who need watching, nanny,” she

stay with him

shrugged. “I spoke to Edrick. He said that he doesn’t care, so long as you’re preoccupied and not trying to f**k

I felt my face flush

interrupted, turning on her heel and heading for the door. “I’ll take you to

but I also didn’t want to see Edrick at the moment if that was what he was saying about me, so I figured that it would be easiest to just “do my

taking sudden corners and slamming doors in my face, essentially making me jog to keep up with her so that I didn’t get lost in this maze of

a corner in a flash of long blonde hair. “I’m sure you don’t mind the trek, though. You could use the

shut and just follow her for the 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. Regardless of how much Kelly aggravated me, one wrong word from her

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, nor could I hear

two children who were standing in the middle of the courtyard. “Good

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