“Thank you for understanding,” Averie said. “I understand,” Mrs. Scarlet said with an embarrassed face.
Elyette and Zoe were getting engaged in a week.
As Elyette’s ex wife, Averie certainly did not have to get entangled in any of his affairs.
Mrs. Scarlet took Shea home at 3p.m. after her checkup.
Averie drove the car to the office.
In the week that she was abroad, Tate Industries had basically issued refunds to every customer who returned their products.
Thanks to the scandal about the quality of their products, all of the orders that were made around the new year were canceled.
The company was not only suffering a loss from the refunds to its customers, it was also facing the dangers of having no new orders.
This was a fatal blow to any business.
A company with no stable funding might not last for long and would declare bankruptcy.
Everyone at Tate Industries was living in constant fear of losing their jobs.
When Averie arrived at the office, a few of the department heads immediately approached her.
“What do we do now, Miss Tate?”
“We have no new orders and the workshop downstairs is closed. Emotions are running high among the employees!”
“It’s all my fault,” said the head of the quality inspection department. “I was careless and did not detect the problem. The company wouldn’t be suffering such a huge loss if it weren’t for me.”
Averie glanced at them, then said soundly, “Ask everyone to go home and get some rest if they have nothing urgent to do. Their salaries will be issued as normal. It’s true that the quality inspection team made a severe mistake, but that’s alright. Just don’t make the same mistake again. If there is a next time, then please resign!”
“What’s our next move, then? We’re the laughing stock of the entire industry!” said the vic president.
Averie took a sip of water.
There was a knock on her door, followed by her secretary saying, “Miss Tate, Mr. Locklyn from Golden Technologies is here to see you.”
Averie had chased Shaun away before and warned him not to return.
Unexpectedly, he had the guts to show up again.
He must be here to laugh in her face.
“Let him in,” Averie said, then turned to the department heads and said, “For now, go and try to settle everyone down. Let’s talk again in a meeting later.”
“Yes, ma’am!”
The department heads then left the room.
Shaun strode into Averie’s office with a delighted grin on his face.
Averie walked over to the couch from behind her desk, then offered Shaun a seat.
“You’ve hit a wall, Averie Tate!” Shaun said as he casually sat down and glanced around her office. “It’s a shame! It hasn’t even been six months since you rebuilt the company, but it will probably go bankrupt again soon!”
“Thanks for your concern, Uncle Shaun. However, just as you will never get my father’s Super Brain system in your hands, I’m afraid your predictions will also never come true!”
The grin on Shaun’s face vanished upon hearing Averie’s words.
“Don’t force me to take more extreme measures, Averie Tate! Even if you get through this rough patch, we will still join forces to defeat you in the future! Don’t expect things to go smoothly for you in Aryadelle!” Shaun threatened.
“Let’s just wait and see! We’ll see who between us ends up defeated,” Averie said nonchalantly.
“Do you even know who you’re up against? It’s more than eighty percent of domestic capital! Are you sure you want to be this stubborn?” Shaun hissed softly. “If your father was still alive, he wouldn’t act this foolishly!”
Averie raised her brows and retaliated, “Do you know why you’ll always be a vice president? It’ s because you’re definitely not as smart as I am.”
Shaun shattered his glass in a rage!
Then, he stormed out of the room.
At the same time, Elyette received a call from Mrs. Scarlet.
“Mr. Foster, please hurry home!” Mrs. Scarlet sobbed as her voice trembled. “I took Shea for a checkup today. The test results show that she’s overdosed on sleeping pills!”
Elyette’s brows furrowed tightly as he snapped, “Who gave her sleeping pills?!”
Mrs. Scarlet held the white bottle of pills that Zoe had given her. “I’ll tell you when you get back,” she said nervously.
Elyette hung up the phone with an ominous look on his phone, then stormed out of his office.
Not just anybody could get their hands on sleeping pills.
Where did these ones come from? The moment the black Rolls-Roice pulled up into the front yard, Mrs. Cooper took Shea back to her room.
When Elyette walked into the living room, Mrs. Scarlet handed him the test results.
“You took Shea to the hospital for a checkup?” Elyette asked as he glanced at Mrs. Scarlet.
Mrs. Scarlet averted his gaze and did not dare meet his eyes.
Averie had instructed her not to mention that it was Averie if Elyette did not pester her.
“It was Miss Tate,” Mrs. Scarlet said as she gave in to the pressure of Elyette’s glare. “Shea insisted on going to see Miss Tate’s children today…”
“Averie’s back?” Elyette said, interrupting her.
“She got back this morning,” said Mrs. Scarlet. “She didn’t want anything to do with this, but I begged her to check on Shea because she’s been saying she’s dying since this morning. I was so worried.”
“Why didn’t you tell Zoe?”
Elyette’s reason had begun to falter.
He lost his composure the moment Averie’s name was mentioned.
“I’ve talked to Doctor Sanford about Shea’s condition, but she said it was a normal post surgical reaction every time,” Mrs. Scarlet said dejectedly. “I couldn’t just sit back and watch Shea be so depressed.”
“I see.”
Elyette stopped blaming her.
He picked up the test results and carefully examined them.
“What’s this about
“I suspect it’s gone something to do with the sedatives that Doctor Sanford prescribed, but I can’t be sure,” Mrs. Scarlet said warily as she handed the white pill bottle to Elyette.
Elyette took the bottle, opened it up and took a look inside.
It was a bunch of whit
Zoe rushed over an hour later.
The atmosphere in the living room was cold and suffocating, and abnormally quiet.
The moment she saw the white pill bottle on the coffee table, she instantly understood what had happened.
She put on an innocent expression, then said to Elyette’s cold face, “This is the sedative I prescribed to Shea a few days ago. I instructed Mrs. Scarlet to give her a pill during each meal for a total of three days. Shea’s emotions were too intense before, which wasn’t good for her recovery. I only prescribed the medication after thorough consideration.”
Mrs. Scarlet’s expression changed drastically after hearing Zoe’s words.
“Doctor Sanford, you didn’t tell me to only give her the pills for three days! That’s why I’ve been giving them to Shea every day with her meals…”
Zoe’s brows furrowed as she said, “I remember very clearly that I told you to only give the pills to her for three days. If her emotions were still unstable after three days, then extend it to a week. However, you can’t continue giving her the pills after a week no matter what. Did it slip your mind?”
Mrs. Scarlet did not expect to become a patsy!
“Doctor Sanford… I remember you told me this was a sedative… I wouldn’t give this to Shea every day if I had known that they were sleeping pills. I know you can’t take too many sleeping pills…”
“Sedatives are also known as sleeping pills,” Zoe said in a voice so calm that it was almost void of emotion. “I know you’re nervous, Mrs. Scarlet. It’s been about ten days, after all. Her body will excrete the drugs slowly as long as she doesn’t take them again. This won’t have too much of an affect on her body.”
Things were not as bad as they could have been because they caught it just in time, but Mrs. Scarlet still felt wronged.
She remembered very clearly that Zoe did not mention that the pills were sleeping pills and for Shea to only take them for a maximum of one week.
If she had not taken Shea to go see Averie that day and gone to the hospital for the checkup, she would have fed the entire bottle of pills to Shea.
“Mrs. Scarlet’s getting old, Elyette. She’s bound to make some mistakes. I hope you don’t blame her,” Zoe said as she took on the role of a hero and asked for forgiveness on behalf of Mrs. Scarlet.
Elyette glanced at Zoe’s face, then retorted, “Why did you give her a whole bottle if it’s only meant to be taken for three days?”
Zoe was taken aback, but quickly reacted and said, “Perhaps I was tired at the time and also trusted Mrs. Scarlet too much. That’s why I took the bottle and just gave it to her instead of splitting them up.”
“Inform me about all of Shea’s prescriptions from now on, even if they’re vitamins and supplements,” Elyette ordered. “There better not be a second time!” Once he gave his warning, he strode over to Shea’s room.
Shea was tidying her desk with Mrs. Cooper’s help.
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