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.

she was wearing a pushup bra through her almost-sheer dress, and it wasn’t working. In fact, now that I thought of

poking her index 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

aback by Kelly’s rude

stare at me,” she snarled. “When someone asks you

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,

of her face and inspected her nails. “There are children here who need

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

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

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

me,” Kelly interrupted, turning on her heel and heading for the door. “I’ll take

couldn’t hide in the bathroom for the remainder of the night, but I also didn’t want to see Edrick at the moment

through the winding 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

as she rounded a corner in a flash of long blonde hair. “I’m sure

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 could potentially land me in the unemployment office… And I didn’t want to have to

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 party that I could hardly see, nor could I hear any sounds of music or people

a condescending flourish toward the two children who were standing in the middle of the courtyard.

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