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.

then developing the new product was not the only reason Tate

is the lesson. All of us should be careful about picking the correct wife,” Ben sighed. “If Jack Tate hadn’t had an affair with Wanda Tate back then,

cold as he said, “This proves

you plan on

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

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 think you got scratched by a cat. It looks like you two had a steamy

out!” Elliot said

hurried out of the

minutes after Ben had left, Chelsea

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

glanced at the emails in his inbox and said, “I’m busy

stubbornly walked over to his desk and said, “I’ll just tell you now! This is more

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

chair across from him, and her eyes immediately fell on the scratch

 She didn’t have to think hard to know what

jealousy rose

exclaimed with a slight tremor in her voice. “Elliot, she’s not worth your

 “Shut up!”

furrowed brows reflected his