When His Eyes Opened

Elliot stared them down coldly as he pursed his lips.

‘I’m finding that traitor even if that’s the last thing I do!’ He thought.

The next morning, Avery opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was Mike’s face.

“You’re awake, Avery!” Mike adjusted her bed and passed her a bowl of soup. “Have some46 soup.”

She had not fully woken up yet and accepted the bowl dazedly.

“How do you feel today?” Mike sat down by the bed and stared at her face. “Why didn’t you tell me that something like that has happened to the company, and came back on your own instead? I would die of guilt if something happened to you.”

Avery sobered. “You are drunk, how was I supposed to let you know?”

“Alright! I shouldn’t have drunk with Elliot!” Mike sighed and said, “but we should really thank him this time. He helped us find thecd traitor.”

Avery’s lashes shivered at the words as she asked with a hoarse voice, “who was it? Who betrayed us?”

“The technical department.” Mike lowered his head because he was the one responsible for the technicalge department.

Avery frowned. “I asked who, not which department.”

“All employees from the technical department,” Mike took a deep breath and gritted out,” those fools went causing troubles when they were out for a gathering and someone took photos of them. They were then threatened to exchange the photos with the microchip and so they plotted together and stole the microchip.”

“Who did they give it to?!” Avery was taken by surprise, but knew that she had to face reality.

“They said that they didn’t know, because the person wore a mask and used a voice changer, so they couldn’t tell who it was.”

Avery had lost all appetite and handed the bowl of soup back to Mike.

“Have some, Avery! Don’t torture yourself,” Mike said guiltily, “it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have trusted them.”

“I feel dizzy right now. I will have the soup later.” Avery laid back down and started thinking of counter moves.

The person who took the microchip had to be either Wanda, or another competitor from the same industry. Soon enough, there would be a company that would launch their products with

brand new updates and it would crush Tate Industries.

An hour later, Elliot arrived at the hospital to visit Avery.

He had dropped by at three in the morning, but left after a glance as Avery was still sleeping at the time. It was half past eight in the morning and he had only slept for less than four hours; his eyes were red.

When Mrs. Cooper saw him approaching, she immediately said, “Avery just had her breakfast

and said she felt dizzy, so she went back to sleep.”

He stepped towards the bed and stared at Avery’s paled face. Her brows furrowed and appeared uneasy even in her sleep.

Suddenly, his phone started ringing. He immediately answered the call and walked towards the balcony.

“Mr. Foster, I got it. The stolen microchip that belonged to Tate Industries is now in the hands of Wanda Tate!” His subordinate said, “they have successfully cracked the code open so there’s no point of recovering it!”

Meanwhile, Avery slowly opened her eyes from the bed.

She stared at Elliot’s slim, yet strong figure from behind and struggled to get up from the bed.

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She thought she was dreaming, because she could see the light surrounding his body. She stepped towards him and he turned around abruptly; she saw his brooding eyes and sensed the warmth radiating off his body and it was then that she finally sobered and realized that it was not a dream.

“Why did you get out of bed?” He held her by the arm and asked, “did I wake you?”

She shook her head. “I slept too long last night and feel dizzy whenever I am asleep for too long.”

“Why don’t we go down for a walk, 46 then?”

Elliot had asked the doctor and the doctor told him that there was nothing wrong with the baby. The main issue was that Avery was emotionally unstable, which led to hyperventilation and increased heart rate. Once she calmed herself and rested, Avery would recover; but if she failed to do so, it would affect the child.

Avery glanced outside the window and saw how sunny it was outside, so she nodded and stepped out of the room with34 Elliot.

“Avery, the trouble your company is facing is no big deal.” As they walked out of the hospital, Elliot hesitated and said, “you can’t get everything you want in life, whether it’s in daily life or work One can only grow when there’s adversity.”

She gazed up at him. “Are you trying to comforted me?”

“You need to strengthen your mental tolerance.” Seeing that Avery was energetic enough, he cut to the chase and said, “so what if someone took your core technology and earned the money that belongs to you? It’s just a financial loss. Health should always be your top priority for as long as you are alive.”

Avery nodded. “So, you drink and smoke when you are ill because you know that health is the top priority in life. If only you had no clue of how important health is, you would have probably just drowned yourself in a whiskeyge barrel!”

“…” Elliot realized that he had worried too much and Avery didn’t need comforting after all.

“Haha!” Seeing that he was rendered speechless, she couldn’t help but laugh. “Look at how red your eyes are. Did you even sleep? If you need to get an electrocardiogram, maybe I can give my room to23 you.”

“I was worried that you might be upset, so I couldn’t sleep,” he explained, “but judging from the way you are right now, I guess you are stronger than I thought you were.”

“I wasn’t admitted to hospital last night because I was in despair. Shaun was sobbing so much when he called me that I felt like the company was going to crumble into nothing. Losing the

of the possibility of those employees that I hired going unemployed… What if they can’t find a new job

losing sleep over

bad. Technology industries depend mostly on core technologies, but even if yours is stolen, you can upgrade on the foundation of what you

nodded and asked, “how did

“Torture.”

“Oh.” She guessed so.

you think that I’m

explain to her that one simply had to be crueler than the people

was no severe punishment in accordance with what had happened to Tate Industries, there would always be employees who would dare to betray the company for profits or out of fear; what happened the night before was a

cruel,” she said and his

you cruel to others, but yourself as well. Your

Elliot froze.

sleep.” She held his hand and looked at him. “I’m okay now and

hand. “Then let me walk you back to

fine.” She glanced

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of the news popped into

Technology of Tate Industries was stolen; Where Would

were plenty of

closing down already? I highly suspect that the building their office is in

Tate Industries’ products are? The quality isn’t bad, but the high-end drone market is completely ruled over by them, and

is the price for drones going to

to see it go down! It treats its employees with great benefits and

opened her messenger

‘Wanda has the microchip!’

this outcome; she simply didn’t think that Wanda

a hotel. Wanda announced with joy that there had been a break-through in the technical department of her company and they would be releasing a brand-new line of high-end products by the end of the year with

might as well announce that she had stolen

asked Wanda, “Madam Tate, the core technology of Tate Industries has been stolen. What

focused on surpassing my own limits. Naturally, I

heard that you were once Avery Tate’s stepmother. Now that she has been admitted to the

see her right

smug expression on Wanda’s face from the news and felt

set and done. What she needed to do was

evening, she requested to be

doctor ran some tests on her and gave her the

had formed the ‘Win-Win Alliance with three

fee for patent royalty; at the same time, Tate Industries announced that the stolen core technology was the undefined version, whereas the technologies that applied to their products was ones that had been upgraded for eight times

Tate, were you admitted to the hospital because of

not affected much by the fact that our core technology was stolen. My team and I have always been dedicated

include the man behind you?” The reporter asked with

Avery was stunned.

man behind me? Is he

to.” She smiled awkwardly and tried to brush the question off. “My son,

am talking about the man who accompanied you to your pregnancy check-up.” The only thing missing from the reporter’s

648 Her face flushed

“please don’t

anything to do with the ‘Win-Win Alliance’. It’s a

that President Tate could not have come up with such an idea herself?” Shaun

entering Tate

had now officially mentioned Elliot’s name and the blush on Avery’s face34

on her and waited for her

that I have

Wonder Technologies claimed that they had a technical break-through and predicted that there will

been registered for the core technology store within the microchip stolen from my company; I shall seek legal action towards

conference

just need to upgrade and change the content inside the microchip a

no big

that she is pulling the other companies over to her side,” Wanda’s assistant said

at once!” Wanda said arrogantly,

you are definitely going

glared at her. “Don’t talk about that anywhere! Chelsea is extremely cautious and if she learns that I let it slip about our cooperation, she will definitely

As the driver drove, she turned on

someone

Alliance was an idea that Chad mentioned to me. I asked Chad

Avery typed.’…’

him to dinner! What do

had resolved the most troubling issue she had in hand. Though she could have solved it

was about to reply ‘yes’, she received yet another message

me that they have been really busy with the new project lately and Elliot has had a lot of work piling up for the past few days. Let’s buy him dinner

“Sure.’ Avery replied.

up because of her. In order to apologize to her, he had hurried over to Bridgedale and had stayed awake through the night to

on the bed as she made

her opinion. “Unless he fires her, I won’t allow you to get back together

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I ever mentioned anything about

that you’ve fallen for him,” Tammy said, “don’t forget what I said. I am really accurate