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.

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

"This proves that women are obstacles on the

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

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

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

out!" Elliot cleared his throat and said hoarsely.

hurried out

had left, Chelsea knocked on Elliot's office

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 non-work related matters after work!"

moment, but she stubbornly walked over to his desk and said,

said," Take a look at this. I'm sure its contents will shock you."

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

didn't have to think hard to know what

of jealousy rose inside

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

furrowed brows

relationship with her has nothing to

those words, he opened up the file and looked at

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