It was a long and painful night.
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?”
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.”
Elliot’s eyes twitched slightly.
If what Ben said was true, then developing the new product was not the only reason Tate Industries was facing bankruptcy.
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
cold as he said, “This proves that women are obstacles on
do you plan on going through with it? Should we have a party to celebrate your return to single
an eyebrow and said icily, “Don’t you have work to do? Do you have
said, “I’m going now… Just a friendly reminder, though. Shouldn’t you do something about that bruise on your
Elliot
hurried out of
had left, Chelsea knocked
work to talk to you about,” she said as she walked
“I’m busy right now. You can talk about non-work related matters
she stubbornly walked over to his desk and said, “I’ll just tell you now! This is more important than
Elliot and said, “Take a
chair across from him, and her eyes immediately fell on the scratch on his
think hard to know
jealousy rose inside of
with a slight
“Shut up!”
furrowed brows
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