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.

was true, then developing the new product was not the only reason Tate Industries was facing

lesson. All of us should be careful about picking the correct wife,” Ben sighed. “If Jack Tate hadn’t had

Elliot’s expression was cold as he said, “This proves that women are obstacles on the road to

Ben said. “When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party

icily, “Don’t you have work to

seat, cleared his 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

“Get out!”

hurried

minutes after Ben had left, Chelsea knocked

talk to you about,” she said as she walked in

in his inbox and said, “I’m busy right now.

stubbornly walked over to his desk and

and said, “Take a look

a seat on the chair across from him,

She didn’t have to think

A wave of jealousy rose inside

night?” she exclaimed with a slight tremor in her

“Shut up!”

brows reflected his