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.

the new

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

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

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

Elliot cocked an eyebrow and said icily, “Don’t you have work

his throat, and said, “I’m going now… Just a friendly reminder, though. Shouldn’t you do something about that bruise on your neck?

“Get out!”

immediately hurried out of the

minutes after Ben had left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot’s office

busy, Elliot? I have something outside of work to talk to you

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

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

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

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

think

of jealousy rose

exclaimed with a slight tremor in her voice.

“Shut up!”

furrowed brows