The CEO's Seductive Doll-Chapter 112: Final Encounter with the Tutor (2)

"What?!" Eternity scoffed exaggeratedly. "No! Heavens, no."

She laughed nervously, avoiding eye contact with Olivia because Eternity knew that if she looked directly at her tutor, she might burst out crying.

But just like the teenage tutor said, she wasn’t dumb. Olivia narrowed her eyes suspiciously, knowing fully well where this conversation was going. Still, even if she did, Olivia kept mum and allowed an awkward veil of silence to envelope them.

After a tense minute where neither of them tried to break the awkwardness between them, Olivia let out a heavy sigh. Eternity finally shifted her gaze to Olivia and raised an eyebrow.

"It’s because of what I did, right?" Olivia asked, her tone a mixture of anxiety and defeat.

"What?" Eternity repeated, her green eyes wide with alarm.

"I broke our student-tutor relationship," she elaborated, even if she knew that Eternity was just feigning ignorance. "By admitting to you that I like you."

"N-n-no!" Eternity stammered unconvincingly. "It’s not that!"

Olivia let out another sigh before she laughed humorlessly. "So I am getting fired."

"Wha—"

"If it’s not that," Olivia said grimly. "There’s something else that’s why I’m getting fired."

"Why are you insisting that I’m firing you?" Eternity frowned, her voice slightly high-pitched due to the accusation hurled at her.

Even though it was true.

"Then what’s going on, Eternity?" Olivia pressed harshly. "Why do you look like a deer caught in the headlights?"

"Aren’t you too young to use such expressions in an everyday conversation?" Eternity asked back, her lame attempt at changing the conversation.

The young girl knitted her eyebrows together at her response. "It’s not every day that I get fired from my internship, Eternity."

’"Why do you—" Eternity didn’t bother to finish her sentence that she was just about to repeat. Instead, she let out an exasperated huff. "Can you at least let me speak, Olivia?"

Olivia eyed her curiously for a long moment before nodding.

But now that the floor was given to Eternity, she didn’t know what to say.

Freiheit was right. This was counterproductive.

Eternity shook her head and internally punched herself for agreeing with her brother-in-law. Olivia gave her a concerned look, but Eternity kept a neutral expression and tried not to show the turmoil of emotions that was forming in her eyes.

If Eternity were heartless (technically, in an anatomical sense, she was), she would’ve just allowed Evan to do his thing and sent an email to Olivia, just like to her other tutors.

But Eternity wasn’t.

She wasn’t as cold as ice to sever their bond through an email. She was better than that.

After a brief moment of silence, Eternity cleared her throat and spoke with a steadfast voice.

"Evan, no, 𝘸𝘦’𝘷𝘦 had decided that it’s finally time for me to venture outside into the real world."

Olivia had a look on her face that seemed to say, ’What does that have to do with me?’ so Eternity further elaborated her words.

"We’ve decided that I’ve already learned all the basic things that I need to learn about our society, and it’s time for me to apply what I’ve learned to real work."

Olivia didn’t say anything, although, judging from her expression, it seemed like she already had a gist of what was going on.

"Meaning to say," Eternity droned on. "We believe it’s time for me to graduate from home school."

Olivia’s gray eyes widened, and a soft gasp escaped from her lips.

"So you won’t need my services anymore?" Olivia asked.

Eternity slowly and hesitantly nodded.

"Fuck!" Olivia swore under her breath, resting her back on the backrest of the restaurant chair. "How am I going to explain to my professor that my internship got cut short?"

Eternity straightened her back, already mentally prepared for the bombardment of questions that her tutor was sure to have.

"Evan will talk to your professor and explain the situation," Eternity replied in a matter-of-fact tone as if she had already rehearsed this answer before.

Which she did.

"In case you’re worried that your professors might take my ’graduation’ negatively and take it against you instead, we’ll be sure to give you a positive post-internship evaluation and make commendable remarks that you were so good with your job--"

"That you ’graduated’ from my tutorship after 2 months in our classes?" Olivia paused as she realized something. "We didn’t even reach 2 months, did we?"

"We didn’t," Eternity confirmed, a shy smile on her lips. "But you don’t have to worry, we’ll pay your 4 months’ worth of salary. It’s in your contract, after all."

"I think even if you pay, no matter how many perfect scores you give me in the evaluation form, this would still reflect negatively against me," Olivia said. "Plus, I have 4 months’ worth of hours left to render on my internship if you ’graduate,’ what--"

"Evan will assist you in getting a new job." Eternity said before she could even stop herself.

Olivia’s gray eyes widened in disbelief.

"Did Mr. Holz really say that?"

"He did," Eternity faked a smile. "He’ll use his connections to make sure that you’ll get a new internship place as soon as possible."

Eternity was pretty sure that Evan promised no such thing, but now that she said this to Olivia, she had to force Evan to do it.

"I can’t believe Mr. Holz would do so much for me..." Olivia whispered in a shaky voice, her eyes staring at her hands that were clenched on her lap. "After all the awful words I said about him..."

"Evan is kinder than you think." Eternity said, smiling gently. "He might seem cold at first, but deep inside, he’s a kind man."

Olivia nodded before finally looking up to meet Eternity’s gaze.

"But I just want to clarify," she said tentatively. "The reason why you’re graduating from homeschool isn’t because of me, right? It’s not because I told you that I like you?"

Eternity shook her head, but she did her best not to do it too aggressively.

"No," Eternity lied. "Of course not."

Just in time, the waiter arrived with Olivia’s food on a tray. Cel the waitress began serving the food on the table, the scent of freshly made waffles and squeezed orange juice was an aroma to behold.

But it seemed like Olivia’s attention was nowhere near the food.

Instead, she was lost in thought as a gentle smile crept on her lips.

"I’m glad," she whispered. "I’m truly glad."

Olivia’s eyes finally focused on Eternity, and she gave an earnest look as she spoke.

"I was so scared that Mr. Holz planned to fire me because I confessed to you," she said with a weak voice. "But now, I realize that he’s more than just an arrogant CEO who has numerous negative reviews on the internet."

"I told you," Eternity chuckled, yet it lacked its usual twinkle. "He’s more than meets the eye."

Olivia nodded. "I hope Mr. Holz will still allow us to be friends and meet up after you graduate from my class, Eternity."

Eternity smiled back, although her eyes were dead and empty.

"We will always be friends, Olivia," the doll promised. "Always."

Unbeknownst to the teenage girl, this would be the last time she’d ever set her eyes on Eternity Doll.