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.

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

proves that women

said. "When do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party to celebrate your return

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

his seat, cleared his throat, and said, "I'm going now... Just 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

out!" Elliot cleared his

out

Ben had left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot's

outside of work to talk to you about,"

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

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

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

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

think hard

jealousy rose inside of her.

Avery Tate last night?" she exclaimed with a slight tremor in her voice. "Elliot, she's

brows reflected

has nothing to

up the file and looked

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