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.

lipstick away from the corner of 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 a group of upper class

All I could do was

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

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with Edrick during the comedy show, and that was the most important thing. None of the other things, such as the paparazzi or the

we got ready for bed, I was too tired to even hide my sadness anymore. And Edrick seemed

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 give me green and gold eyeshadow just to spite

at first, but as I looked in the mirror, I could still see the deep frown at the corners of my lips and the sad look in my eyes.

book and setting it on the side table before folding his arms across his chest. “Just tell me. Is it the paparazzi? I promise you’ll get

down with a sigh. “It’s not that,” I replied. “I know it’ll get easier. It’s just…” My voice faltered. 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

“Go on,” he urged.

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

still facing the mirror, watching myself 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 that he had gotten out of

do you think I would care what any of those people think?” he asked, his voice low and quiet as he fixed his gray eyes on

“They’re your colleagues. Your peers. I assume some of them are even your

with a laugh. “None of those people are my