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 was not the only reason Tate Industries was

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

Elliot’s expression was cold as he said, “This proves that

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

icily, “Don’t you have work to do? Do you have that much free time on your

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!” Elliot

Ben immediately hurried out of the

Fifteen minutes after Ben had left, Chelsea knocked on

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

glanced at the emails in his inbox and said, “I’m busy right now.

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

in to Elliot and said, “Take

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

to think hard to know what it

jealousy rose inside

night?” she exclaimed with a slight tremor

“Shut up!”

Elliot’s furrowed brows