How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 120

Elodie was caught off guard by Jarrod's sudden attentiveness.

He'd rarely shown this side before. They hadn't spent much time together, and Jarrod was hardly the sentimental type.

This new gentleness had to be-well, probably the result of Sylvie's influence.

With a neutral expression, Elodie took the tissue he offered and turned, intending to leave.

But her foot slipped on the edge of the cushion beneath her, and she twisted her ankle.

"Careful."

"Careful!"

Two voices overlapped-one calm, one urgent.

Two hands caught her arms, steadying her.

Elodie looked up to find Jarrod on one side, Ivan on the other.

Jarrod's dark eyes were steady; even his tone was unhurried.

Ivan glanced at Jarrod with a raised brow. "So, Mr. Silverstein does have a soft spot after all."

The comment made Elodie uncomfortable. He was just poking fun at Jarrod's usual indifference toward her, nothing more.

She pulled her arm free from both of them and replied coolly, "Thank you."

bother explaining himself to Ivan. He merely lowered

Meanwhile, across the room-

snapping a photo of the scene

tugged Alexander aside and whispered, "Didn't

Alexander

Esmeralda sent him the

clicked his tongue. Esmeralda truly had a talent for getting under

was any better. Besides he was fiercely

just Sylvie. He tagged Maurice and Joseph, too—one of them was

idea what Esmeralda and Alexander were plotting. The ceremony was complicated enough that she had no time

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At the mountain resort-

only saw Alexander's photo because Maurice forwarded

she? She's already pulled

at the resort, everything set-except Jarrod

Sylvie's brow furrowed.

at the photo—Jarrod steadying Elodie—and her face gave nothing away. "She's more calculating than I thought. I can't

looked aloof on the surface. In the end, she

hated that kind of

now, yet she kept acting

him to get here as soon as possible," Maurice said, getting annoyed himself. "Why does he even bother with

off her phone, unwilling to look at that shameless

Elodie seriously. Still, there's no telling

Jarrod knows what he's doing, or Elodie wouldn't have spent all these years