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.

was facing bankruptcy. 4 "This is the lesson. All of us should be careful about picking the correct wife,"

said, "This proves that women are

said. "When do you plan on going through

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

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

his

hurried out of the room.

Chelsea knocked

something outside of work to talk to you about," she said as she walked in and closed the door behind

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

walked over to his desk and

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

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

hard

jealousy rose inside of

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

brows reflected

her has nothing to do

opened up the file and looked at the documents

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