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.

of us should be careful about picking the correct wife," Ben sighed. "If Jack Tate

said, "This proves that women are obstacles on

determined to divorce Avery Tate!" Ben said. "When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party to celebrate your return to single life?"

an eyebrow and said icily, "Don't you have work to do?

though. Shouldn't you do something about that bruise on your neck? If I didn't know

Elliot cleared his throat and said hoarsely.

hurried out

left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot's office door.

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

and said, "I'm busy right now. You can talk about non-work related matters after work!"

a moment, but she stubbornly walked over to his desk and said, "I'll just tell you

file she brought in to Elliot and said," Take

seat on the chair across from him, and her

hard to know

rose inside of her.

night?" she exclaimed with a slight tremor

brows reflected

with her has

up the file and looked at the

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