It was a long and painful night. 3

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?" 1

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." 2

Elliot's eyes twitched slightly.

new product was not the only reason Tate Industries was facing bankruptcy. 4 "This is the lesson. All of us should be careful about picking

said, "This proves that

looks like you're really determined to divorce Avery Tate!" Ben said. "When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party to celebrate your

you have work to do? Do you have that much free time on

bruise on your neck? If I didn't know better, I'd think you got scratched by a cat. It looks like

out!" Elliot cleared his throat

immediately hurried out

Ben had left, Chelsea

outside of work to talk to you about," she said as she walked in and closed the

inbox and said, "I'm busy right now. You can talk about

moment, but she stubbornly walked over to his desk and said, "I'll just tell you now! This is

to Elliot and said," Take a look at this. I'm sure its

and her eyes immediately fell on the

have to think hard to know what it

rose

slight tremor in her voice.

brows

with her has nothing

opened up the

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