Avery walked out of the restaurant with Adrian and received a call at that moment.

After bringing Adrian to the car and sitting down, she took out her cell phone.

The call was from Mike.

He had already arrived at the restaurant where she had reserved a table for them to have lunch, but she was nowhere to be seen.

"Mike, I'm with Adrian. I've already ordered the food, so you can get someone else to eat with you." She suppressed her grief and pretended to speak calmly.

"You're with Adrian?"

His question, however, caused her emotions to collapse in an instant. "Elliot transferred all the shares to Adrian! All of them! He hates me, Mike, he hates me! That's why he's punishing me this way!"

Mike was so startled that he breathed heavily and his mind turned blank in an instant.

He finally realized why Ben and Chad hated Avery that much. It was all because Elliot made such a ridiculous decision!

What Elliot did was no different from suicide!

Had Mike known that Elliot would do that,