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.

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

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

taken aback by

she snarled. “When someone asks you

her grandmother.” I attempted to step around Kelly, but she moved with me and stood in my way.

she said. “She doesn’t need you, but

hand in front of her face and inspected her nails. “There are children here who need watching, nanny,” she said, glancing up at me

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

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

quivering slightly as I felt my

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

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

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 mansion. If I was being honest, I wasn’t sure how I would find

Kelly called over her shoulder as she rounded a corner in a flash of long blonde hair. “I’m sure you don’t mind the trek, though. You could

that I was actually quite fit, but I decided to keep my mouth 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

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

we are,” Kelly said, gesturing with a condescending flourish toward the two

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