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.

working. In fact,

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 all day. So, pray tell, why are you spending the evening running around with Edrick

aback by Kelly’s

she snarled. “When someone

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

doesn’t

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 her face. “Do you

promised Edrick I’d stay

said that he doesn’t care,

said that?” I asked, my voice quivering slightly as I felt my face

heading for

the remainder of the night, but I also didn’t want to see

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 how I would find my way back

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

brother after sleeping with him and becoming his employee, then it would also be a risk to talk back to his childhood best

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

here we are,” Kelly said, gesturing with a condescending flourish toward the two children who were standing in the middle of the courtyard. “Good luck,

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