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.

not refusing, which took Elodie

in the past, when she'd suggested a photo together, he'd never shown any interest. Now that his grandmother was asking, he had to go along with

for linking

Elodie stood still.

glance but didn't press the

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

muscle beneath her

camera.

them smiled. Their expressions were cool, almost

at coaxing a smile from them, the old woman

delighted as she went, taking photo after photo

let go as

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

nodded and started up

when his grandmother remembered, "Your great-aunt's grandson just had their second baby-there's a christening this weekend, and

stayed silent, looking

had always been close,

the celebration was the decent thing to

they'd

up to

and replied lightly, "Sure.

had no

upstairs, Elodie quickly

wide her cheeks

it good for young couples to be

Jarrod's study as he

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