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.

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

finger into the center of my sternum. “You’re basically just a glorified maid whose only duty is to play with children all day. So, pray tell, why are you spending the evening running around with

taken aback by

“When someone asks

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

she said. “She doesn’t need you, but I know

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

Edrick I’d stay with him and Ella for the remainder of the night,” I

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

as I felt my face

with me,” Kelly interrupted, turning on her heel and heading for the

thought of Edrick speaking about me like that to Kelly, but decided to follow her; I couldn’t hide in the bathroom for the remainder of the night, but I also didn’t want to see Edrick

palace hallways. She always stayed a few steps ahead of me, 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 mansion. If I was being honest, I wasn’t sure

flash of long blonde hair. “I’m sure you don’t mind the

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 could potentially land me in the unemployment office… And I

corner and pushed open a set of heavy double wooden doors, coming out into another courtyard garden. This one was larger than the other with a massive oak tree 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

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

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