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.

a bit clumsy, but he did it thoroughly. After he finished, Eileen dried

she checked Twitter again and saw that Ophelia had

that they were together for work, that it was a working dinner. As for why Eileen used Egbert’s

not her phone did die

comments about it being a working dinner were quite convincing.

star eating such a humble meal on a

Eileen was speechless..

and asked, “Didn’t you find it tasty?”

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

“Yeah, you did

able to explain that he didn’t eat much. It was her who ate most

apple, he handed her a piece and comforted

to vent at the netizen, but she remembered that Ophelia had

staring at her phone, Egbert held an apple slice to

her mouth

Egbert was pleased.

and another slice of

the time Eileen put down her phone, she had

the fruit knife and went to wash it in the

he returned, he saw Eileen

sat down next to her and asked, “What’s

him, “When are you leaving?”

a napkin

owl clock next to her and said,

turned on the TV and said, “Let’s

pay the

what

on her coat and said,

didn’t respond or

and handed

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

to him, puzzled.

something on it and in a

from Egbert. It was a Christmas greeting

“Wow!”

was thrilled. She stopped rushing Egbert to leave

for

later, Eileen posted on Facebook.

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, because I know you won’t forget about

phone started buzzing

are you

[Yeah, I’ve totally forgotten about

Morgan texted her: [I’ve got a gift