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.

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

the nanny,” she said, stepping toward me and 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

aback by Kelly’s

snarled. “When someone

minutes socializing when Ella is with her grandmother.” I attempted to step around Kelly, but she moved with

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

what Kelly seemed to be getting at, as she held up her hand in front of her face and inspected 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

I’d stay with him and

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

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

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

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”,

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

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

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

it was much further from the banquet hall. In fact, it was so

gesturing with a condescending flourish toward the two children who were standing in the

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