The CEO's Seductive Doll-Chapter 53: Nurse Doll

"Eternity...?" Evan hesitated as he accepted the ice pack Eternity handed him.

He placed it on his bruised eye, feeling the coldness slowly dulling the pain. It was ironic; she was the one who had given him this black eye, yet she was also the one trying to soothe his suffering.

Speaking of coldness, he felt a chill in his chest. Actually, to be specific, he felt a chill all over his body as if he were bare-naked.

Then it hit him.

He was still only wearing a single towel wrapped around his waist.

"Yes, Evan?" Eternity replied meekly, tilting her head slightly, resembling a puzzled puppy.

Evan found her completely adorable, but given his current situation, it was a strange thought to entertain. Someone capable of delivering a one-hit knockout to a grown man wasn’t typically described as "adorable."

"Are you going to ask who I managed to shut your lights out?"

Evan knew it wasn’t Eternity’s intent to embarrass him, but he felt embarrassed. Eternity, sensing the shift in Evan’s mood, frowned.

"Oh, I apologize." She lowered her head, her sincerity evident. "I didn’t have any intention to make you feel like..." Eternity raised her head, contemplating as she paused.

"Like what?" Evan asked, even if they both knew precisely what Eternity was meaning to say.

Eternity frowned, fully aware of the direction the conversation was heading.

"Are you just saying that to cause another fight between us, Evan?"

"I don’t know what you mean." He feigned ignorance.

Instead of taking the bait, Eternity simply sighed and decided to let the matter drop.

"Do you remember when I asked you if you’d want me to carry you after I gave you a fellatio?" She asked, returning to the topic at hand.

"Fellatio–" Evan nearly choked on the word.

It appeared that Eternity’s tendency to discuss intimate activities in such a clinical manner was something he couldn’t quite get used to.

Eternity uttered "Yes" slowly, appearing a little perplexed by Evan’s response.

"Anyway." She shook her head, continuing to say what she initially intended to say. "I asked you if you would like to get carried since you couldn’t move anymore. You said no because, aside from the fact that you couldn’t possibly allow a lady to carry you, you doubted that I could."

Evan tried to raise an eyebrow, but his sore eye muscles protested.

"What’s your point?" He asked, keeping his facial muscles as still as possible.

Eternity furrowed her brow and glanced down, emitting an exasperated sigh as if she were frustrated that Evan couldn’t quickly grasp her point.

"My point is," she said impatiently. "Eternity women have—"

"Super strength?" Evan suggested, snorting.

Much to his surprise, Eternity nodded.

"What?" He exclaimed, not really expecting an answer but more of an expression of disbelief.

"Though only when we’re fully charged," she added as a disclaimer.

Evan’s eyebrows knitted together, unsure what to do with this information.

"So are you saying..."

"What I’m saying is," Eternity released another exasperated sigh, her patience growing thin by the second. "Since we did... a lot of things just a few days ago, my energy reserve is overflowing."

To say that they did "a lot of things" was an understatement. Evan didn’t quite register the last part of Eternity’s sentence until a few seconds later.

"Wait," Evan’s eyes widened, his piercing icy blue gaze locked on Eternity as the realization hit him like a lightning bolt. "Energy reserve? Like, a fucking battery?"

Eternity wrinkled her nose as if she didn’t like the word that Evan just used. "I would prefer the word ’heart,’ Evan."

Evan quickly corrected himself, using her preferred term this time.

"Alright, ’heart,’ then."

It seemed that the term change made a difference, as Eternity smiled gratefully before continuing. "Because my energy is more than enough, I now have a significant amount of it stored within me as of the moment."

"Which you released when you punched the living crap out of me," Evan replied in a deadpan.

Eternity’s blush deepened, and she couldn’t ignore the knot of guilt that had formed in her stomach. She looked at Evan apologetically.

Lowering the ice pack from his face, Evan was about to ask what was wrong when he felt her hand reach out, gently touching the bruised skin around his eye. Evan instinctively winced, as if he half-expected her to deliver another punch.

Eternity’s expression shifted to a pout, the weight of her guilt apparent in her gaze.

"Evan, I want to apologize for what happened earlier," she began. "I shouldn’t have reacted that way."

Evan continued to listen in silence, his left eye still sore from the earlier altercation.

"I’m sorry for hurting you," she added.

Evan couldn’t help but grumble in response, nursing his swollen eye with the ice pack for emphasis.

"Well, yeah, you did knock me out," he retorted dryly.

Eternity let out a heavy sigh, her gaze dropping to the fabric of the sofa as if it were the next big thing next to sliced bread. But they both knew her avoidance of eye contact was born out of guilt rather than a fascination with upholstery.

"It was wrong, and I regret it."

Evan slowly reached out to her face, placing his hand under her chin to make her look up at him.

"Eternity," he said, as softly and gently as possible. "Please look at me."

Hesitantly, she did as she was told and finally met his gaze. When she finally did, her moss-green eyes darted in the direction of his bruised eye.

"Don’t pay it any mind," Evan said.

"But I ruined your face!" Eternity insisted. "You can possibly go to work tomorrow with a blackened eye."

He paused as if it hadn’t come to his mind that people would see him with such a bruise. With a shrug, he replied.

"I’ll just wear an eye patch to hide it."

"Like a pirate?" Eternity asked, hopefully.

Evan couldn’t help but smile at her innocence.

"Like a pirate," He agreed.