Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 156

Eileen was so mortified. She really made a fool out of herself this time!

She wanted to explain to Ophelia what had happened.

But then Ophelia bellowed, “What kind of second-rate phone are you using? Eileen, what on earth are you doing? Who gave you permission to tweet from Egbert’s phone? Are you that desperate for everyone to know you two were together on Christmas? What’s your game here? You want the whole world to know?”

Eileen realized that Ophelia was genuinely pissed.

She was so livid she was starting to talk nonsense.

Eileen was afraid that Ophelia might want her thousand dollars back, so she quickly apologized, “Ophelia, I’ll change it right now. I’ll turn off the setting that shows the phone model, okay?”

“It’s too late! Everyone already knows!”

Ophelia was trembling with rage. All her hard work had been ruined by Eileen’s single tweet!

She calmed herself down and asked seriously, “Is Egbert with you?”

Eileen glanced at Egbert who was still leisurely sipping his soup and said, “Stop eating, we’ve got a situation.”

Egbert looked up at her.

Eileen turned on the phone’s speaker and nervously said, “Ophelia, you can speak now, he can hear you.”

Ophelia took a deep breath, explained the situation to Egbert, saying, “This incident is primarily Eileen’s fault, not yours, Mr. Reed. However, the public has already started.buzzing about you two having dinner together over Christmas which might lead to misunderstandings.”

Egbert put down his utensils and casually asked, “What do you need me to do?”

Ophelia breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Actually, you don’t have to do anything. We’ll handle the online chatter. You just need to refrain from making any statements on your end.”

In other words, Egbert should stay out of it, keep mum, or else things could get worse and even obstruct their efforts to manage the public opinion?

Egbert glanced at Eileen.

Eileen was looking at him expectantly.

Egbert then said, “Alright.”

Hearing his agreement, Ophelia didn’t say much else. After scolding Eileen, she hung up.

It was supposed to be a merry Christmas, but this mess happened.

Eileen had lost her appetite.

She laid down her fork and got up despondently to wash the dishes.

As she was turning on the tap, Egbert came over, rolled up his sleeves and said, “Let me do it.”

Eileen gave him a look and moved aside.

but he did it thoroughly. After he finished,

hustling, she checked Twitter again and saw that Ophelia had

work, that it was a working dinner. As for why Eileen used Egbert’s phone to tweet, it was because

or not her phone did die was

the online comments about it being a working dinner were

meal on a holiday, it must be

Eileen was speechless..

Eileen looked up at Egbert and asked, “Didn’t you find it tasty?”

who was peeling an apple for her, whispered, “It

“Yeah, you did finish

explain that he didn’t eat much. It was

apple, he handed her a piece and comforted her, “Don’t bother with all that stuff.”

wanted to vent at the netizen, but she remembered that Ophelia had hired him, so

Egbert held an apple slice to her

mouth and

Egbert was pleased.

a couple of times, swallowed, and another slice of apple was

her phone,

from the table, took the fruit knife and went to wash it in the

saw Eileen looking at him.

down next to her and asked,

him, “When

napkin and

clock next to her

up the remote control, turned on the TV and said, “Let’s watch some TV

pay the cable bill, there’s no

know what to

up from the sofa, put on her

respond or

Egbert’s coat and handed it to him.

took the coat, set it aside and pulled Eileen by the hand

to him,

his phone, did something on it and in a bit, Eileen’s phone

It was a Christmas

“Wow!”

rushing Egbert to leave and started

Christmas was a time for greetings

minutes later, Eileen posted on

thank you all for the holiday greetings and gifts that you’re about to send me. You probably forgot because you’re too busy, but I want to thank you in advance,

a while, Eileen’s phone started buzzing nonstop.

replied: [What are you trying to do?]

I’ve totally forgotten about

got a gift