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.

her, she could not

no idea that her

all these fixed assets, why did he not sell them

also the company in which we are sitting right now," said the lawyer. Then, after a brief pause, he added, "Your father planned to leave the company to you, but the company is currently operating

at the lawyer and said,

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 in order to make up

Avery was stunned.

and twenty-five

off all of her father's assets, it still would not cover a hundred

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 FɪndNøvel.ɴᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of

and Cassandra?" Avery asked after taking a deep

for her brother to join our finance department a few years ago. He embezzled a lot

her hands 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 development. If we manage to get a loan, once we launch the new product, we'll be

be able to give me that

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

on the top floor of Sterling Group, the sun was shining through the spotless floor-to-ceiling

sun, Elliot's chiseled features looked

holding a document that his assistant, Chad Rayner,

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

impossible amount for her," Chad

information on Tate Industries, so he figured that

a

was stirring his cup of coffee as his eyes narrowed

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

took a sip of 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

I'll make a bet with you!"

should we

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

afternoon, Avery called up

as simple as Shaun

two of which the company still

other two banks did not dare

promising product. I'll think of a way to set up a meeting with the managers

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