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.

her mouth with her pinky finger, eyeing me in the reflection as she did so. “I hope you don’t eavesdrop often. It’s not very becoming; especially not for someone of your status to be doing to

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 her

anger; sadness that my social status would never let me be worthy of respect, and angry that these seemed to be the types of women I had to look forward to in the future now that I was involved with an Alpha billionaire. If 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 any true friends again. If this was what wealthy women were like, then

…

during the comedy show, and that was the

bed, I was 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

frown at the corners of my lips and the sad look in my eyes. Edrick noticed,

before folding his arms across his chest. “Just tell me. Is it the paparazzi? I promise you’ll get used to it, and they’ll calm down eventually so it won’t be so bad in

I hung my head, unsure as 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

“Go on,” he urged.

about me. And

turn to face him. I didn’t realize it at first, but I now noticed that he had gotten out of bed and was now standing in

any of those people think?” he asked, his voice low and quiet as

peers. I assume some of them are

are my friends. In fact, I can’t stand