Chapter 119

She never finished her sentence.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded at the doorway.

A low, cool male voice cut through the room. "I'm not late, am I? Darling?"

Elodie's words were snatched from her lips.

She whipped around, stunned, half-convinced she must have misheard.

Everyone else in the room looked over, just as surprised.

Jarrod strode in, calm and assured.

Seeing him, Ivan's brows knit in surprise. He hadn't expected Jarrod to give Elodie such respect-calling her "darling" in front of everyone.

But then again, Ivan realized, today it was just the Thornes-no outsiders, no need to keep up appearances. Jarrod could afford the pretense of

acknowledgment. If even one unknowing guest were present, Elodie would never hear such a word from him.

Tall and impeccably dressed in a black suit, Jarrod crossed the room. He glanced at Elodie, then nodded politely to Rosemary. "Business kept me for a while," he said, voice even. "My apologies, Grandma."

Elodie's expression cooled.

"darling" had almost cracked her composure. The shock she felt at

playing? Willing to go this far

years of marriage, he'd

Selma and Sylvie today. Why had he shown

plain black,

about this made sense.

his tone

and the others still watching, she forced herself to change the

"Work."

drop. It wasn't her place to dig deeper,

to press further. She simply waved

following the

word "darling," nudged Alexander, bewildered. "What's going on? Aren't they already divorced? He hasn't even changed

"Maybe Elodie negotiated something with him. Either way, since he's here, I take back what I

hadn't shown, Alexander would have told Elodie to get a rabies shot in memory of all the years she'd

made sense. By rights, Jarrod should have been spending today as Sylvie's main

the fireworks show-the real highlight-wasn't until tonight. That would leave him free to come here

she figured Jarrod would leave as soon as the

smile touched his lips as he greeted Jarrod. "I thought

Jarrod had

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