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.

that the lawyer was describing her father's fortune to her, she could not help but feel a

that her father was

he not sell

said the lawyer. Then, after a brief pause, he added, "Your father

at the lawyer and said,

adjusted his glasses and chimed in, "The current 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.

hundred and twenty-five

sold off all of her father's assets, it

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

about Wanda and Cassandra?" Avery asked

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 off to

on her forehead, and her voice 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 that money-" 6 "Borrow it!" said Shaun. "We've reached the end of our new product research and

from? Who would be able to give me that much?" Avery said as she raised

can find another investor. We have to try. If we manage, then great. If we don't, then you can give

the top floor of Sterling Group, the sun was

his back facing the sun,

holding a document that his assistant, Chad Rayner, brought

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

amount for her," Chad

information on Tate Industries, so he figured that his

make a

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

Avery Tate will come to Elliot to ask for a loan. She's in a favorable position to enjoy certain benefits. If she asks Elliot for the money, I'm guessing he'll at least lend some

smashed a bottle of wine from 1947 in front of our faces and went up against Chelsea. She might look gentle, but she's even more feisty than

a bet with you!" Chad

we bet

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

called up every major

as simple as Shaun made

called eight banks, two of which

course, the other two banks did

new product. It's a very promising product. I'll think of a way to set up a meeting with the managers of the other

need to dress up? Can't I just go like this?" Avery