Chapter 18

Egbert was knocking on the door for over a minute, but there was no response from inside

Just as he was about to call Josiah to check if they had already left, the door suddenly swung open

Eileen emerged locking rather disheveled

Her appearance was a far cry from how she looked earlier when she was downstairs, back then, she had on a coat over a loose white long sleeved shirt and jeans

Now she had taken off her coat which was hanging off her arm. Two buttons on her while shirt were undone revealing her collatione

Furthermore, her usually composed face was slightly flushed

She was clearly not in her normal state

Egbert’s face instantly darkened, and his gaze shifted towards the interior of the room.

But Eileen blocked his view, muttered vaguely. “Kenley isn’t feeling well, he cant come along Lets get going With that she started to close the door

Egbert held the door open, looking at her coldly

Eileen swallowed hard, appearing somewhat flustered, “What are you doing?”

Seeing her reaction, Egbert’s expression became even more stem. His eyes locked on her unbuttoned shirt collar from his angle, he could even see a glimpse of her chest. He asked coldly. “Do you even know what work is?”

Eileen was puzzled, ‘What?”

“Dunng work hours, you should know how to differentiate between work and personal life is this how you’ve always been conducting yourself at work?”

His rebuke was so straightforward that Eileen bit her p in embarrassment it was the first time she had been scalded during a show

She pressed her lips together, warling to calm the situation. She didn’t care about apologizing anymom, muttered sulkuly. Fine, I was wrong, okay? Let’s just go”

“What about him? Egbert refused to let go of the door His megant fingers were still pressing against the door, clearly not intending to let her off the hook just yet.

Eleen was getting annoyed, 1 told you he’s not ferling well. What do you want?

Let me ask him

Eileen

room was in a state of chaos.

atmosphere seemed to freeze instantly

stood at the door, eyes coldly taking in the sight of the man lying on the floor covered in injuries and

breathing shallow His hands were twisted

was up.

was caught by

and looked at her with

Eileen seemed unfazed and defended herself. What what He started it first, said he wanted to play adult games, so I used my professional fighting skills and played a little adult smashing game with

his

but she faltered under Egberts piercing gaze, finally mumbling. “Okay,

Egbert was speechless

him up Eileen declared, walking back into

stepped on his chest pinning him down. After a few movements, she didnt know if she had fixed Kanley’s limbs, but he had passed

Egbert went silent

stood up. Because it was too hot, she flapped her

was totally

rubbed his face and said to Eileen with his eyes closed. “You go down first”

cautiously, “What

at her

“Til wait for you downstairs”

as she finished speaking. Eileen disappeared.

to the unconscious Kenley and gave him a couple

to see Egbert standing over

he reached up to touch his face, his hand came away covered in blood, and his head was

with anger as he looked around, “Where’s

a chair to

upstairs alone, but not only had she failed to bring Kenley down, she had

was asking her what had happened.

unusually flustered, evading their questions. “They’ll

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