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.

If what Ben said was true, then developing the new product was not the only reason Tate

is the lesson. All of us should be careful about picking the correct wife,” Ben sighed. “If Jack Tate hadn’t had an affair with Wanda Tate back then, the Tates

said, “This proves that women are obstacles on the road to

Avery Tate!” Ben said. “When do you plan on going

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

up from his 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

“Get out!” Elliot

hurried out of the

Ben had left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot’s

I have something outside of work to talk to you about,” she said as she walked in and closed the door

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

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

the file she brought in to Elliot and said, “Take

chair across from him, and

think

jealousy rose inside

with a

“Shut up!”

Elliot’s furrowed brows reflected his