How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 38

Elodie and Alexander both took the following day off, choosing to shut themselves away and rest.

She knew how fragile her health was; pushing herself for no reason had never

been her style.

10:00 p.m.

Jarrod stopped by the house he shared with Elodie that evening.

He paused as he opened the shoe cabinet to grab a pair of slippers.

His dark eyes swept over the shelves, scanning up and down.

Elodie was always calm and a little distant, but she cared about the details of daily life. She loved anything that felt vibrant and alive-so even something as ordinary as house slippers, she insisted on picking out bright, cheerful colors.

Usually, a few pairs in pastel yellow, sage green, or vintage blue would be lined up right next to his black, gray, and white ones.

They were hard to miss.

But now, as he looked, those splashes of color were gone. The cabinet felt strangely empty, dull.

Cara, their housekeeper, came over to take his suit jacket. "Welcome home, sir."

Jarrod closed the cabinet door. "Where are her shoes?"

glanced at the cabinet, thinking for a moment before answering, "Mrs. Silverstein came by earlier and asked me to throw them all out. I think she wanted to

considered this.

Just as he'd expected.

Elodie hadn't come back.

Jarrod pulled out his phone and checked

messaged Elodie two hours ago. She still

just busy and hadn't had a chance to respond? He couldn't be

didn't really

already made his

rest, Elodie was back at

wrapped up a major project and landed a new deal. One of the new clients was a tech manufacturing company owned by The Silverstein Group, with the actual production

away on a last-minute business trip, he assigned the

she might be uncomfortable. Elodie gave him a small,

The Silverstein Group's subsidiaries; there was no guarantee

Elodie had a remarkable ability to compartmentalize. She never let personal feelings cloud her judgment. She was always

recognized Esmeralda as

to technical specs

a technical partner at VistaLink, Elodie held

surprised VistaLink had sent such a young,

but didn't take it to

been married to Jarrod for three years, always keeping it quiet. Jarrod

stickler for keeping business and private life separate, never mixing the

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