When His Eyes Opened

Chapter 19

It was Sunday, and Avery did not get out of bed until it was ten thirty in the morning.

It was the first time she had slept in at Elliot’s house.

When she walked out of the room, the group of men in the living room shifted their gaze toward her.

Avery was dressed in a loose nightgown with her disheveled hair falling to her shoulders, framing her clean, spotless face.

She did not expect Elliot to have guests that day.

Elliot and his guests stared sternly at her as if they did not expect her to suddenly appear.

Something snapped in Avery’s head.

When she realized the awkward situation she was in, she instantly turned around and made her way back to her room.

At that moment, Mrs. Cooper walked over and pulled her in the direction of the dining room.

“You must be hungry, Madam. You were sleeping soundly when I went to your room earlier, so I didn’t wake you.”

“Those people… Who are they?” Avery stammered.

“They’re friends of Master Elliot. They came to visit him. Don’t worry. It’s fine even if you don’t greet them,” answered Mrs. Cooper.

“Okay,” Avery responded.

She did not even greet Elliot when she saw him, why would she greet his friends?

If she had known that he was having guests over, however, she would have woken early and spent the whole day out.

Elliot’s friends in the living room were very interested in Avery.

“Elliot, why’s that young girl staying with you? Is she a caretaker? Or maybe…”

“We’re all adults here. Elliot is a man, after all. It’s normal to have a young lady in his house! Ha ha!”

When Elliot did not respond, everyone shut their mouths and dropped the subject.

“Do you guys know Avery Tate from Tate Industries? They say she’s Jack Tate’s daughter—”

“I know. She called me Friday night asking for an investment, but I hung up before she could finish talking.”

“She really is something. What does her father’s debt have to do with her? She must be insane for jumping into this mess!”

“Young people are reckless like that! I looked into their new product, but it’s a total bust! A self-driving system might sound cool, but the conditions are complicated and uncontrollable. Whoever invests in it would be an idiot!”

……

room, Avery listened to the discussion in the living room with

her laptop and

she had limited abilities. She needed to focus on

a new email around four in

the table after reading its contents and then read

was signed ‘Mr.

new product. He wanted to learn more about it and would invest if the

was filled with

knew nothing about this person apart from the fact that

he could have just set

Avery replied to

this a new

reply

humor, Miss Tate. Here’s proof of my

was an image file attached to the

opened the file, her eyes instantly widened in

a bank account showing he had close to two hundred million dollars in his checking

tremendous sum, Avery stared at the image and did the calculations

her heart raced. Her hands were trembling

pictures, but isn’t this going overboard? Who would have two hundred million in their

would it take for you to believe me? How about you send over your bank account number, and I’ll bank in a

scamming techniques have advanced into? All you need is a bank account number to

not respond to

for a while, Avery sent him

account that could only receive funds, so it did not matter if he turned out to

and waited

notification on

that Mr. Z had wired over

…

that Avery was at half

this Mr. Z really send you

said, “This balance of

Shaun was ecstatic.

is he from? You should set an appointment with him

she said, “All he gave me was an address and asked

the address to me, too. I’ll go with you on Friday,”

“Okay,” Avery responded.

allowed Avery to temporarily put the issue of Tate

about the identity of

dollars, and he had never even met her. Did he have too much money on his hands, or was he really that interested

was, Avery thought it was