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.

said was true, then developing the new product

sighed. “If Jack Tate

“This proves that women are obstacles on the

“It looks like you’re really determined to divorce Avery Tate!” Ben said. “When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party

Elliot cocked an eyebrow and said icily, “Don’t you have work to do? Do you have

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

out!” Elliot said

Ben immediately hurried

left, Chelsea knocked

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

and said, “I’m busy right now. You

over to his desk and said, “I’ll just tell you

file she brought in to Elliot and said, “Take a look at this. I’m

on the chair across from him,

didn’t have to think hard to know what it

of jealousy rose inside of

exclaimed with a slight tremor in her

“Shut up!”

furrowed brows reflected his