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."

explaining himself to Ivan. He merely lowered his eyes and said quietly to Elodie, "Be more

Meanwhile, across the room-

was already snapping a photo of the scene on

Alexander aside and whispered, "Didn't you

you want?" Alexander saw right through

photo for your private group-set it so only Sylvie can see. Give Elodie a little win!" Esmeralda sent him the

clicked his tongue. Esmeralda truly had a talent for getting

better. Besides he

Alexander didn't restrict it to just Sylvie. He tagged Maurice and Joseph, too—one of them was bound to see it. He was generous like that-if he

were plotting. The ceremony was complicated enough that she

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At the mountain resort-

only saw Alexander's photo because

found it amusing. "Elodie really can't sit still, can she? She's already pulled

a big event at the resort, everything

Sylvie's brow furrowed.

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

only looked aloof on the surface. In the end, she still threw herself at Jarrod whenever she got

that kind of

Jarrod had someone now, yet she kept acting like this-no boundaries, no sense

to get here as soon as possible," Maurice said, getting annoyed himself. "Why

switched off her phone, unwilling to look at that shameless photo any

of her lips faded. "Jarrod doesn't take Elodie seriously. Still, there's

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