When His Eyes Opened By Simple Silence

Chapter 11

Elliot reached his arm out through the car window.

Clipped between his slender fingers was a pack of tissue.

Avery was stunned. She was about to decline but ended up uncharacteristically accepting it.

“Thanks.”

The warmth of his palm still lingered on the tissues.

Elliot quickly averted his gaze from her face and rolled up the window as the car sped off.

It was ten in the morning at Tate Industries, and all of its employees were working away at their respective stations.

It had been a month since the company had paid wages. However, Tate Industries was an old player in the industry. Even if all kinds of negative news were circulating on the internet, its employees refused to give up until the very last moment.

If she had not known about the company’s many debts, Avery could not imagine that the calm atmosphere in front of her was an illusion.

She entered the meeting room with the company’s vice president, Shaun Locklyn.

The lawyer went straight to the point when he saw Avery and said, “I’m very sorry for your loss, Miss Tate. Your father entrusted me to announce his will, which I will do now.”

Avery nodded lightly.

The lawyer opened up a file and said firmly, “Your father had six pieces of real estate which are respectively located in… Here is the file. Please go through it.”

Avery took the document and examined it thoroughly.

“Your father also had three parking lots,” said the lawyer as he passed another document to her, “as well as eight shop lots, and twelve vehicles.”

Avery knew nothing about the family’s fortune.

First of all, she had no interest in it.

Second of all, her father had never explained it to her.

Now that the lawyer was describing her father’s fortune to her, she could not help but feel a sense of unease.

idea that

did he not sell them

right now,” said the lawyer. Then, after a brief pause, he added, “Your father planned to leave the company to

at the lawyer and said,

chimed in, “The current deficit is a hundred and twenty-five million. If you take over your father’s company, you would also inherit his debt. You may have

Avery was stunned.

and

she sold off all of her father’s assets, it still would

expression. “However, I hope you will seriously

Wanda and Cassandra?” Avery asked after

her fault that the company is in dire straits. She arranged for her brother to join our finance department a few years ago. He embezzled a lot of money from the company through the

“I don’t want to see my father’s company

end of our new product research and development. If we manage to get a loan, once we launch the new product, we’ll be able to alleviate our financial

loan from? Who would be able to give me that much?” Avery said as she raised her eyes in

investor. We have to try.

……

floor of Sterling Group, the sun

the sun, Elliot’s chiseled features looked

holding a document that his assistant, Chad Rayner,

facing a debt of a hundred and twenty-five million dollars. Jack Tate’s wife and youngest daughter took an early flight out of the country this morning. It doesn’t look like they will be returning before the company’s troubles are settled. I

Industries, so he figured that

a

his cup of coffee as his

will come to Elliot to ask for a loan. She’s in a favorable position to enjoy certain benefits. If she asks Elliot for the money, I’m guessing

his head and said, “I doubt she has the guts to

a bottle of wine from 1947 in front of our faces and went up against Chelsea. She might look gentle, but she’s even more

then. I’ll make a bet with you!”

we bet

lose, I’ll buy you coffee for a month. If you lose, you have to

“Okay.”

……

afternoon, Avery called up

not as simple

which the company still owed