How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 71

When Elodie arrived, she found Jarrod standing beneath the covered walkway of the nursing home, cigarette in hand. He looked tall and composed, an imposing figure with a chill about him that kept people at a distance.

Her heart pounded against her ribs, and her expression was anything but calm.

Jarrod, always calculating, never wasted words. He was threatening her with her uncle to force her hand—nothing more, nothing less.

She walked up to him. "Can we talk?"

Jarrod turned slowly, regarding her with a cool gaze. "Why are you so nervous?"

The question hit her like a slap.

Elodie knew times had changed; she couldn't afford to be defiant anymore. She softened her voice. "My mother dedicated her whole life to art. She and Selma always had their differences. No matter what, the gallery can't be sold. Can't you just let this go...?"

She was out of breath, probably from running.

Her words came out in shaky bursts.

Jarrod just looked at her, unmoved. "Her mother loved that place."

His tone made it clear-he wasn't going to give in.

He was willing to let the Thorne family be insulted, all to please Sylvie's mother?

all the times she'd pleaded for him to visit her uncle and grandmother. He'd barely ever agreed.

What a cruel joke.

I know you always get what you want, but not this time. My grandmother can't stand Sylvie's mother. If she finds out Selma is the buyer, it will

if she refused, Jarrod had

She couldn't risk it.

she let her vulnerability show-something she'd never

studied her for a long moment, lost in

his hands into his

stunned by

"Was the situation with Mr. Patrick

Finally, she understood.

The fallout with Mr. Patrick had affected her grandmother, and now the gallery was just another pawn in his game. He'd

was the reason his

was clear

eyes. "No. It was a personal matter between me and her. There's no way I could influence Mr. Patrick or the

true. He just wanted to make her squirm, to defend Sylvie's

the redness in her eyes. "Tell me besides

surprised

of

she

Jarrod understood her meaning.

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