When His Eyes Opened

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.

Ben said was true, then developing the new product was not the only reason Tate Industries was facing

All of us should be careful about picking the correct wife,” Ben sighed. “If Jack

expression was cold as he said, “This proves that women are obstacles on the road

divorce Avery Tate!” Ben said. “When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party

 Elliot cocked an eyebrow and said icily, “Don’t you have work to do? Do you have that much free time

from his seat, cleared his throat, and said, “I’m going now… Just a friendly reminder, though. Shouldn’t you do something about that bruise on your neck? If I didn’t know better, I’d

 “Get out!” Elliot

immediately hurried out of

had left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot’s

Elliot? I have something outside of work to talk to you about,” she said as she walked in and closed the door

at the emails in his inbox and said, “I’m busy right now. You can talk about non-work related

desk and said, “I’ll just tell you now! This is

in to Elliot and said, “Take a look at this.

the chair across from him,

didn’t have to think

of jealousy

with a slight

 “Shut up!”

brows reflected