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.

dishes was a bit clumsy, but he did it thoroughly. After he finished, Eileen dried them and put

all the hustling, she checked Twitter again and saw that Ophelia had managed the situation well.

together for work, that it was a working dinner. As for why Eileen

or not her phone did die was

online comments about it being a working dinner were quite convincing.

humble meal on a holiday, it must be a working dinner!]

Eileen was speechless..

up at Egbert and asked,

for her,

“Yeah, you did finish it all.”

eat much. It was her who ate most

a piece and comforted her, “Don’t bother

that Ophelia had hired him, so she stopped herself

staring at her phone, Egbert held an apple slice

instinctively opened her mouth

Egbert was pleased.

another slice of apple

her phone, she had finished the whole

from the table, took the fruit knife and went

he saw

sat down next to her and asked,

him, “When are you

a napkin and casually said, “There’s still

owl clock next to her and said, “It’s late, it’s already

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

didn’t pay the cable bill,

what to say.

on her coat and

didn’t respond

up Egbert’s coat and handed it to

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

next to him, puzzled.

out his phone, did something on it and in a bit,

it up and saw a message from Egbert. It was a Christmas greeting and he mentioned he had also

“Wow!”

was thrilled. She stopped rushing Egbert to leave and

right, Christmas was a time for greetings and

minutes later, Eileen posted

to send me. You probably forgot because you’re

phone started buzzing

you trying to

[Yeah, I’ve totally forgotten about you.]

gift card for you too, haha, Merry