The CEO's Seductive Doll-Chapter 137: The CEO’S Secret
Three months.
"Did you hear?" a voice whispered.
"I did!" another one exclaimed excitedly.
It only took three months.
The first voice snickered. "Someone caught Mister Holz being intimate with an employee inside his office!"
"Oooooh!" the second voice giggled. "But have you heard about the other gossip?"
"Which one?" the first one asked curiously.
"Remember that video from months ago?"
"YES!" the first one voiced with full-blown enthusiasm, as if they couldn’t get enough of the gossip. "That video of Mister Holz shamelessly making out with someone out in the open?"
It only took three months for them to unearth the truth.
"The girl in that video is the same employee that was caught yesterday!" the other voice said exaggeratedly, like it was the revelation of the century.
"I knew she looked familiar!" The first voice snapped their fingers loudly.
"Who could’ve known?" the other voice giggled.
"Who could’ve known?" they repeated together. "That woman in that viral video was Mister Holz’s new secretary?"
It only took three months for them to unearth the CEO’s secret.
***
"How did they make that connection?!" Evan shouted as he paced around, his voice booming in the wide expanse of his office.
Eternity watched him in silence, eyeing his hands that were shaking as he held onto his coffee mug. It seemed like he was seconds away from smashing it against the floor.
"Getting caught kissing is one thing," he continued. "But having them connect the dots and reveal that you’re the same girl in the video is another thing altogether!"
"Lower your voice, Evan," Eternity ironically said. Usually, it was him who said this to her. "They can hear you from the outside."
He finally stopped walking back and forth, much to her relief, because he was starting to make her feel dizzy. Instead, he glared at her.
"Why are you so calm?" he demanded. "Don’t you know the consequence of having our relationship become common knowledge here in RBAB?"
"I could just resign," Eternity offered, uncrossing and crossing her legs as she sat on the sofa. "That would shut them--"
"No!" Evan growled. "I will not let you do such a thing!"
"It’s either you or me, Evan," she pointed out. "The board of directors might force you to resign if I don’t."
Upon hearing this, Evan froze. His icy blue eyes widened in shock. He set the mug down on his desk with a trembling hand, the porcelain clinking against the wood.
"Fuck," was all he could say.
She knitted her eyebrows together, taken aback by his reaction. "You didn’t think that you’re in a more dangerous situation than I am?"
Evan avoided Eternity’s piercing gaze and clicked his tongue.
"I did not," he admitted after a moment of silence.
"I don’t know about you, Evan," she said in a straight, no-nonsense tone. "But you should’ve thought about the possible consequences before you hired me as your secretary."
"Are you saying it’s my fault?!" he burst out, only to shake his head a second later. "Ugh, yes, I do know it’s my fault..."
"But it’s too late to regret your actions now, right?" Eternity seemed unamused.
"But it’s not out in public yet!" he insisted, sounding hopeful. "Maybe things will go our way—"
"It 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 reach the media and the public, Evan," she said, an unusual calmness in her voice. "Someone will tattle sooner or later. Plus, they get paid for being whistleblowers."
Seeing that Eternity was unusually acting like the logical one in their situation, Evan was starting to feel like an idiot, and a voice inside his head kept on telling him that he was merely overreacting.
"Why are you acting like you don’t care about what’s happening?!" Evan shouted, evidently frustrated.
"I do care," Eternity said. "I’m just processing the situation differently from you."
Her words seemed to have hit him like a bolt of lightning, and Evan’s body turned rigid. He paused, inhaled deeply, before walking towards the sofa and sitting right next to her.
"You’re right, I’m sorry," he murmured, his tone sounding remorseful. "It’s stupid of me to think that way just because you’re not visibly panicking like I am."
Eternity smiled gently, placing her hand on top of his, which was resting on the soft cushion of the sofa.
"It’s alright," she assured. "I’m just thinking about the identity of who caught us yesterday and how they pieced it together that I was the girl in the video."
"Do you have any guesses of who it might be?" Evan asked curiously.
"Not yet," she said, but her lips formed a confident smirk. "But didn’t you tell me before that you have eyes all over the company?"
***
Once she had calmed Evan down, Eternity exited his office.
"Here I go," she murmured, inhaling deeply and gathering all the strength she could muster as she walked through the aisle of the CEO’s division.
Murmurs filled the room almost immediately, making Eternity want to snort at the absurdity of the situation. She tried to ignore the curious and devious eyes watching her, but snippets of their gossiping still reached her ears.
"Sir Holz was shouting at her just now..."
"Maybe he’s blaming her?"
"I assume they’ve been dating prior to her joining the company... Since, you know, the video happened months ago. So he’s equally at fault for hiring her even with their relationship."
"Speaking of, I just realized, did Miss Doll get into the company just because she’s fucking the boss?"
"I knew it!"
Eternity finally reached the door, quickly pushing it open and heading out into the hallway. Thankfully, there was no one around outside, saving her from the stress of judgmental eyes and whispers of gossip.
Once she was in front of the elevator, she pressed the button. Soon enough, the door opened with the elevator operator, Esteban, waiting inside.
"What floor?" His voice was cheerful at first but then he recognized Eternity as she stepped in. He gasped loudly before avoiding her gaze, as if her mere eye contact could burn him alive.
’He obviously heard the news,’ Eternity mentally noted. ’But I won’t take it against him.
"To where security’s office is," she replied. "I need to see the ’eyes’ around the company."
