Shrouded Affections Winning Back My CEO Wife

Chapter 126

Chapter 126:

Eileen ended the call and headed straight to the location Raymond had provided. Once there, she decided to wait in her car.

The midday sun beat down fiercely, making the car uncomfortably hot. After a short while, unable to stand the heat any longer, Eileen got out of the car and walked into the restaurant.

At the entrance, there was a couch for guests. Eileen took a seat and started reviewing the material for her upcoming tutoring session on her phone.

Roughly thirty minutes later, a waiter approached her. “Excuse me, miss. Are you waiting for someone, or are you here to dine?”

“Just waiting for someone,” Eileen replied. Checking her watch, she saw it was nearly an hour since her arrival. She hurriedly redialed Raymond’s number.

The call connected, and she could faintly hear the rumble of a car engine through the phone.

“Hi, is your boss done with his meeting with the client?” Eileen inquired while glancing outside. Just then, she noticed a familiar black car merging into traffic.

It was the same one that had taken Milford to the educational agency days before.

Standing up, Eileen opened the door and stepped outside as Raymond explained, “My boss had an urgent matter come up. We’ve only just left the place.”

Eileen bit her lip as she watched the car drive away. She exhaled slowly before asking, “It’s alright. By the way, what should I call you?”

“Just call me Mr. Brooks,” he replied with brevity, throwing a glance at Bryan in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

Bryan had a slight smile as he looked out the window, seemingly amused by the situation with Eileen.

Eileen, after ending her phone call, saved Raymond’s number in her contacts as “Mr. Brooks” and then drove back to the agency.

Later that night, after careful thought, she decided to go to Pianoforte Villas, bringing with her textbooks for Milford’s grade.

Arriving at the door with her suitcase of books, she noticed the door was ajar. However, to be courteous, she still chose to ring the bell.

From inside, Milford called out with impatience, “The door’s open! Come in!”

As Eileen pushed the door open, a peculiar noise from above caught her attention. Looking up, she was shocked to see a bucket of water tipping toward her.

The cold water drenched her, streaming down from her head to her dress, tracing a path along her chin.

The bucket fell on her head with a loud clunk, sending a throbbing pain through her head.

Milford couldn’t contain his laughter. “That’s what you get!”

With those words, he spun on his heel and dashed up the stairs.

Eileen stood motionless for a moment, her fingers releasing the suitcase handle and allowing it to hit the floor. She removed the bucket, revealing her face flushed with frustration.

Her eyelashes, clumped by water, flicked as she managed to pry her eyes open and glare at Milford, who paused halfway up the stairs.

Milford said, “You might as well accept it. I’m not going to study with you. Keep coming if you want to experience something similar again.”

and your potential. Is this how

Leaning on the railing, Milford scowled and retorted,

then disappeared into

nerves, Eileen smoothed back her damp hair

edges, so they weren’t ruined. Eileen tipped

went to Milford’s room on the third floor.

surprised to see

with her foot and walked in. Finding a seat, she pulled out her phone and

just snorted, his focus returning to his

9 o’clock, the end of what would have been their normal time, arrived, Eileen stood up

water marks on the

Milford’s guardian have

sign of a car

Eileen left, carrying the suitcase through

watching Eileen leave. Eileen’s hair was still slightly

she walked,

she vanished beyond the community gate, Bryan headed upstairs and

off guard and starting to protest, straightened up instantly when he saw it was Bryan who had

into receiving the tutoring, I advise you not to waste

room, found the only clean chair, and sat

well, and a small puddle next to his shoe

a cigarette, he lit it. Soon, the haze of smoke took

the weight of Bryan’s silence,

without a word, Bryan just

Milford had spiked the water with ice to

day, her nose was runny and her cough incessant. Despite Bailee’s ginger soup remedy, her condition didn’t improve, and she

enough,” Bailee

into her car. Once Bailee hopped in with a hint of reluctance, Eileen said, “I’ve got a morning full of preparing course materials, an afternoon trial lesson, and even tutoring.

her nose with a tissue and fired up the engine, heading back

that troublesome Milford? What if he tries something drastic like setting you on fire tomorrow?

alone gave Eileen a headache, but she knew he

to really sit down and

up and send

nodded in agreement. At the studio, she powered up her computer, located

of them

other number without a second thought. The call connected after a brief wait, and

recognized

Miss Curtis?” Raymond, on the other

awkward silence passed before

upon this number in Milford’s contacts. I was guessing it was his

paused for a second before replying, “Well, it is my boss’s number, but it’s mostly used for work matters.

realized she had hit a dead

go well. I can’t just ignore this,” Eileen said.

voice echoed through Bryan’s office; Raymond had switched the call to