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.

bodies, but it was 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 day or at the banquet just now. It made me wonder if it was a regular thing for her to refuse food, which made

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

taken aback by Kelly’s rude

stare at me,” she snarled. “When

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

still with Verona,” she said. “She doesn’t need you, but

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

over at the door. “Well, I promised Edrick I’d stay with him and Ella for the

care, so long as you’re preoccupied and not

I felt

heel and heading for the door. “I’ll

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 at the moment if that was what he was saying about me, so I

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

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

didn’t need the cardio and that I was actually quite fit, but I decided to 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 her could potentially land me in the unemployment office… And I didn’t want to have to go there again

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,

toward the two children who were standing in the middle of the

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