When His Eyes Opened

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.

had no idea that her father was this

he had all these fixed assets, why did he not sell them and use

Then, after a brief pause, he added, “Your father planned to leave the company to you, but

lawyer and said, “By

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 to sell off all of the properties and cars that were mentioned just now

Avery was stunned.

and

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

“However, I

Cassandra?” Avery asked after taking a

stepmother! It’s partly 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 years. We don’t even know where he’s run

trembled as she said, “I don’t want to see my father’s company fall either, but where am I supposed to find all of

to get a loan, once we launch

to give me that much?” Avery said

have to try. If we manage, then great. If we

……

Sterling Group, the

facing the sun, Elliot’s chiseled

document that his assistant, Chad

industries are currently 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 think Miss Tate will most likely give up on Tate Industries. A hundred and

for information on Tate Industries, so he figured that his boss was interested in

a

Group’s chief financial officer, Ben Schaffer, was stirring his cup of coffee as his

ask for a loan. She’s in a favorable position to enjoy certain benefits. If she asks Elliot

“I doubt she has the guts

of wine from 1947 in front of our faces and went up against Chelsea. She might look

I’ll make a

we bet

a month. If you lose, you have to buy coffee for everyone

“Okay.”

……

called up every major

not as simple

which the company still owed money