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?"

came by earlier

considered this.

Just as he'd expected.

Elodie hadn't come back.

loosened his tie, Jarrod pulled out his phone and

two hours ago. She

or just busy and hadn't had a

he didn't really

his gesture, hadn't

day of rest,

landed a new deal. One of the new clients was a tech manufacturing company owned by

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

worried she might be uncomfortable. Elodie gave

of The Silverstein Group's subsidiaries; there was no guarantee she'd

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

by Jason, the manager. He recognized Esmeralda as one of VistaLink's principal shareholders

it came to technical specs

held

but glance curiously at Elodie he was surprised VistaLink had sent such a

noticed his scrutiny but didn't take it to

for three years, always keeping it quiet. Jarrod had never

stickler for keeping business and private

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