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.

If what Ben said was true, then developing the new

picking the correct wife,” Ben sighed. “If Jack Tate hadn’t had an affair

cold as he said, “This proves

“When do you plan on going through with

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

do something about that bruise on your

“Get out!”

immediately hurried out

left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot’s

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

Elliot glanced at the emails in his inbox and said, “I’m busy right now. You can talk about non-work related matters

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

she brought in to Elliot and said, “Take a look at

seat on the chair across from him, and her eyes immediately fell on the scratch on

think hard to know what it

wave of jealousy rose inside of

she exclaimed with a slight

“Shut up!”

furrowed brows reflected his

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