How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 97

Chapter 96

Elodie finally allowed herself to relax a little.

She stayed with Emile through lunch, waiting for the discomfort from the treatment to ease, and then returned to VistaLink Technologies to wrap up some loose ends.

Jarrod hadn't reached out to her again.

The next day.

Just as Elodie was about to log off at the end of her workday, her grandmother called. "Sweetheart, what time are you getting off?"

"I'm just about to finish," Elodie replied, closing her laptop.

"Perfect! I've sent Jarrod to pick you up. Come home with him after work, I need you both here for something."

Elodie blinked in surprise. "Grandma, actually I have—"

"He's already downstairs. Just head down when you're ready."

"...Okay."

Rubbing her aching temples, Elodie resigned herself to it. If it weren't for her grandmother's direct orders, there was no way Jarrod would be offering her a ride.

packed up quickly

enough, a sleek Bentley

Jarrod glanced

Silverstein Group, no matter how many times her grandmother insisted Jarrod give her a ride, not once had they actually left work together

there was nothing left to hide- she'd finally earned the "privilege" of being chauffeured

urgent. "You know, I can skip it. Could you

tell her yourself. I'm not your messenger," Jarrod replied, glancing at his watch with a

to guess why. Her mother's issue still hung between them,

over

the passenger seat, but in the end, she

knew his rules. The front seat belonged to his girlfriend-she wasn't about to cross

pressed close to the door, bundled in her coat and staring silently

away and addressed the

was momentarily

he...taking her

she was reading too much into it. Even if he did give an order for her sake, it

the Silverstein Mansion, Octavia had already returned from hanging out with her friends and was curled up on the

"I knew you'd use Grandma to get closer to my

grown used to this. She didn't

mood—she'd interrupted his date

from the side

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