His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 138: Us Against the World

Moana

I knew that I should have just walked away, but I was too stubborn to just let these women get away with talking so poorly about Edrick like that.

When I pushed the door open, the women suddenly stopped talking. Their eyes were wide as they turned to face me.

“What are you talking about?” I said as I stepped into the bathroom.

The women were silent. I felt like I was being appraised and judged as they looked me up and down, but I didn’t care. If people were going to say such nasty things about Edrick, then they could judge me all they wanted; but I was going to say something about it, and I felt as though I caught them in the act.

However, the women’s shock quickly wore off. Their wide-eyed looks turned to plastic smiles.

bit of her lipstick away from the corner of her mouth with her pinky finger,

realized that their rudeness left me speechless, which meant that they had won. All I could do was stand there with narrowed eyes while all three of them brushed past me, one after the other. The last woman bumped me with

I went on to continue to be in a relationship with Edrick, real or fake, I couldn’t help but feel as though I would never be able to make

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comedy show, and that was the most important thing. None of the other things, such as the paparazzi or the mean women in the

too tired to even hide

was sitting up in bed with a book in his lap while I busied myself with brushing out my hair in the bathroom mirror. I had just taken my makeup off, which always made me sad because of how beautiful Tyrus’ work was — and I didn’t care one bit if those horrible women thought that my green eyeshadow was ugly. I thought it was perfect, and from now on, I knew that I would always ask Tyrus to

still see the deep frown at the corners of my lips and the sad look in my eyes. Edrick noticed, too, and wouldn’t let

across his chest. “Just tell

to how to broach the subject. I didn’t know if I should have told Edrick about what those women were saying or not; maybe he would have just told me that it was nothing more than gossip and he would have looked down on me for falling

“Go on,” he urged.

“After tonight, I’m just worried that I’m ruining your image,” I finally admitted. “At the event, I knew that people were staring at me and talking about me. And I’m worried that it’s

as I talked, but I finally worked up the nerve to turn to face him. I didn’t realize it at first, but I now noticed

those people think?” he asked, his

your colleagues. Your peers. I assume some of them

people are my