When His Eyes Opened By Simple Silence

Chapter 21

It was a long and painful night.

When it was all over, Avery was so tired that she passed out.

The next morning, Elliot showed up at Sterling Group around ten in the morning as usual.

Once he entered his office, Ben walked in.

“I went to Twilight to see you last night, but I didn’t catch you. Did you and Avery Tate leave early?”

Elliot raised his brows and said, “That’s what you’re here to talk about?”

Ben smiled bitterly and placed the file in his hand on Elliot’s desk.

“This is the financial reports for Tate Industries from the past few years. I took some time to look into it. They’re in pretty deep trouble.”

Ben paused, then added, “Their finance director embezzled at least three hundred million dollars. I heard that he was Jack Tate’s brother-in-law.”

Elliot’s eyes twitched slightly.

then developing the new product was not the only reason

about picking the correct wife,” Ben sighed. “If Jack Tate hadn’t had an affair with Wanda Tate back then, the Tates wouldn’t

was cold as he said, “This proves that women are

“When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party to celebrate

you have work to do? Do you have that much free time

throat, and said, “I’m going now… Just a friendly reminder, though. Shouldn’t you do something about that bruise on your neck? If I didn’t know better, I’d think you got scratched by a cat. It looks like you two had a steamy

“Get out!” Elliot

immediately hurried out of the

left, Chelsea

I have something outside of work to talk to

the emails in his inbox and said, “I’m busy right now. You can talk

a moment, but she stubbornly walked over to his desk and said, “I’ll just

to Elliot and said, “Take a

the chair across from him, and

think

jealousy

Avery Tate last night?” she exclaimed with a slight tremor in her voice. “Elliot, she’s

“Shut up!”

furrowed brows