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.

arms across her small chest. I was never much of the type to judge other women negatively for their 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

only duty is to play with children all

aback by Kelly’s

snarled. “When someone asks you

a few minutes socializing when Ella is with her grandmother.” I attempted to step around Kelly, but she moved with me and stood in my way. She

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

her face and inspected her nails. “There are children here who need watching, nanny,” she said, glancing up at me over her

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

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

as I

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

speaking 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 figured that it would be easiest

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,

of long blonde hair. “I’m sure

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,

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

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

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