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.

makes you happy," Jarrod replied, not refusing, which took Elodie

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

linking arms

Elodie stood still.

her a thoughtful glance but didn't press the issue, checking his watch twice with

huff of exasperation, his grandmother stepped forward and hooked Elodie's arm through Jarrod's. "There! That's

beneath her palm,

camera.

of them smiled. Their expressions were cool, almost

coaxing a smile from them, the old woman gave up

photo after photo until Jarrod finally dropped his

let go as

phone. "I've sent them to your great-aunt—and to you, Jarrod.

started up the

great-aunt's grandson just had their second baby-there's a christening this weekend,

silent,

grandmother and great-aunt had always been close, and

the celebration

whether they'd actually

was up

lightly,

had no

upstairs, Elodie

them, his grandmother smiled so wide her cheeks

for young

just outside Jarrod's study as he

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