"Can you sleep in peace not knowing what has happened?" Elliot asked. "You need to be here for the annual dinner, so go back to your seat! I will return once I have a handle on what has happened."
Avery nodded. "Call Isaac and ask him out to a restaurant nearby. It's late, so don't wander too far."
"Yeah. I'll go now," he said and shot his bodyguard a look.
His bodyguard followed Elliot, and, once they left, Avery returned to her seat.
"Mom, where's Dad? Where did he go?" asked Layla, noticing that Elliot had not come back with her.
"Your dad needs to handle something."
"What's wrong? Is it dangerous?" Layla asked worriedly.
"It's not dangerous. I wouldn't have let him go if it's not safe," Avery reassured her. "If all goes well, he should be back soon."
As soon as Elliot walked out of the hall, he called Isaac.
Not sensing the crisis awaiting him, Isaac answered the call and asked brusquely, "Do you need something, Mr. Foster?"
"Come out. There's something I need to talk to you about," Elliot said calmly.
Without a second thought, Isaac immediately headed out. "Of course, Mr. Foster. Let me know where. I will be there as soon as possible."
Once he hung up, Elliot sent Isaac an address.
Half an hour later, Isaac arrived at the restaurant Elliot had reserved a table at.
"Mr. Foster, I don't know Natalie that well. She reached out to me through a common friend. She knew that I was coming back to Aryadelle and told me that she could help me get into the Sterling Group." Sensing the severity of the situation, Isaac confessed, "She told me to keep an eye on a woman with scars on her wrists."
Instantly, Elliot thought of Juliet, as she was the only person with scars on her wrists that he knew.
"Natalie didn't tell me why she was looking for this woman. After I got the offer letter from the Sterling Group, I called her and told her not to contact me ever again. Mr. Foster, I really value this opportunity. I've never done anything that would bring harm to you or the company. You can look into it."
"You saw the scars on Juliet's wrists, didn't you?" Elliot questioned.
The first time Juliet met Isaac, she had acted coldly toward him, and it was clear that she was not interested in Isaac at all, nor did she intend on getting involved with him. She had referred to Isaac by his given name in the audio with an extremely gentle voice, yet she had recorded their conversation in secret to send to Avery, which meant that she could not mean to date Isaac.
Elliot came to the conclusion that Isaac must have threatened Juliet.
"Mr. Foster, how... how do you know?" Isaac had not imagined that Elliot would know about this, as Juliet had returned to Ylore.
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