His Eagle Eyes on Me

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.

describing her father's fortune to her, she could not help but feel a sense

had no idea that her father was

these fixed assets, why did he not sell them and use the money to treat his

Then, after a brief

at the lawyer and said,

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

Avery was stunned.

hundred and

father's assets, it still would

That way, your father's debt would not fall on you," Shaun said with a sullen expression. "However, I hope you will seriously consider this. This company is your father's life's work. Do you really have the heart to watch it shut down?" Sᴇaʀch Thᴇ

Cassandra?" Avery asked after taking a

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.

fall either, but where am I supposed to find all of that money-" 6 "Borrow it!" said Shaun. "We've reached the end of our new product research and development. If we manage to get a loan, once we launch the new product, we'll be able to alleviate our financial troubles quite

for a loan from? Who would be able to

investor. We have to try. If we manage, then great. If we don't,

floor of Sterling Group, the sun was shining through

back facing the sun, Elliot's chiseled features

a document that his assistant, Chad Rayner, brought to

of the country this morning. It doesn't look

impossible amount

asked him for information on Tate Industries, so he figured that his boss

make a bet,

was stirring his cup of coffee as his eyes narrowed like a

the money, I'm guessing he'll at least lend some of it to her." Chad shook his head and said, "I doubt she has the guts

coffee and chuckled, "You didn't see her last night. She smashed a bottle of wine from 1947 in front of our faces and went up against Chelsea. She might look gentle, but

then. I'll make a bet with

should we bet

you lose, you have to buy coffee for everyone in the president's department for a

called up

simple as Shaun

two of which

other two banks did not

meeting with the managers of the other

I need to dress up? Can't I just go