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.

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

basically just a glorified maid whose only duty is to play with children all day. So, pray

blinked, taken aback by Kelly’s rude

she snarled. “When someone asks you a question, you

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

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

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 you want me to take you

Edrick I’d stay with him and Ella for the remainder

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

I felt my face flush

her heel and heading for the door. “I’ll

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 at the moment if that was what he was saying about me, so I figured that it would be easiest to just “do my job”, as Kelly liked to

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

as she rounded a corner in a flash of long blonde hair. “I’m sure you don’t mind the

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 would also be a risk to talk back to his childhood best friend. Regardless of how much Kelly aggravated me, one wrong word from

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

flourish toward the two children who were standing in

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