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.

reason Tate Industries was facing bankruptcy. 4 "This is the lesson. All of us should be careful about picking

proves that women

Avery Tate!" Ben said. "When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party

icily, "Don't you have work to do? Do you have that

do something about that bruise on your neck? If I didn't know better, I'd think you got scratched by a

cleared his throat and said hoarsely.

immediately hurried out of

left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot's

work to talk to you about," she said as

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

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

Take a look at this. I'm sure its contents will

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

think hard

jealousy rose inside of

she exclaimed with a slight tremor in her voice. "Elliot, she's not worth your sincerity!" 3 "Shut

brows reflected

has nothing to do

said those words, he opened up the file and

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