How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 73

Elodie glanced over, her eyes catching on something she wasn't meant to see.

As Jarrod helped his grandmother steady herself, Elodie's gaze landed, just for a moment, on his crisp white shirt collar-and there it was, a faint smudge of brownish lipstick.

She looked away immediately, heart skipping.

Before Jarrod and Sylvie got back from shopping together...

Had they been kissing?

Or-

Was it something more?

No wonder Jarrod seemed to be in such a good mood-

Turns out he'd just come back from a little romantic escapade.

"You two stand together-Elodie, link your arm with his." His grandmother's cheerful voice snapped Elodie out of her thoughts.

She didn't ask questions.

What good would it do? She'd only be humiliating herself.

Best to pretend she hadn't seen a thing.

When Elodie glanced up, she saw the old woman holding up her phone, beaming at the sight of the handsome pair. "Let me take a few photos. I'll send them to your great-aunt."

Elodie hadn't expected her first photo with Jarrod to happen like this.

happy," Jarrod replied, not

past, when she'd suggested a photo together, he'd never shown any interest. Now that his grandmother was

for linking arms

Elodie stood still.

didn't press the issue, checking his watch twice with

stepped forward and hooked Elodie's arm through Jarrod's. "There! That's better. Now

her palm, but she looked calmly at

camera.

them smiled. Their expressions were

attempts at coaxing a smile from them, the

more delighted as she went, taking photo after

go as

excitement, started chatting with her sister on her phone. "I've

nodded and started

just had their second baby-there's a christening this weekend, and

stayed silent, looking

grandmother and great-aunt had always been

they'd stayed polite to her. Attending the celebration was the decent thing to

they'd

up to

and replied lightly, "Sure. Send us the

he'd agreed, Elodie had

headed upstairs, Elodie quickly

his grandmother smiled so wide her cheeks

good for young couples to

outside Jarrod's study as he

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