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.

not the only reason Tate Industries was facing bankruptcy. 4 "This 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, the Tates wouldn't be in this mess."

was cold as he said, "This proves that women are obstacles on the

you're really determined to divorce Avery Tate!" Ben said. "When do you plan on going through

have work to do? Do you have that

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

cleared his throat and said

hurried out of

Chelsea knocked

I have something outside of work to talk to you about," she said as she

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

walked over to his desk and said, "I'll just

and said," Take a look

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

have to think hard to

rose inside

night?" she exclaimed with a slight tremor in her voice. "Elliot, she's not

brows reflected

her has

words, he opened up the file and

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