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."

didn't bother explaining himself to Ivan. He merely lowered his eyes and said quietly to Elodie, "Be

Meanwhile, across the room-

a photo of the

"Didn't you add Sylvie

Alexander

this photo for your private group-set it so only Sylvie can see. Give Elodie a little win!" Esmeralda sent him the photo, arms crossed and smirking. "If she doesn't know her place, we'll be happy to remind

his tongue. Esmeralda truly had

any better. Besides he

Sylvie. He tagged Maurice and Joseph, too—one of them was bound to see it. He was generous

Alexander were plotting. The

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At the mountain resort-

Alexander's photo because Maurice forwarded

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

at the resort, everything set-except

Sylvie's brow furrowed.

Elodie—and her face gave nothing away. "She's more calculating than I thought. I can't pretend to be fragile and helpless like

the surface. In the end, she still threw herself at Jarrod

that kind of

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

as possible," Maurice said, getting annoyed himself. "Why does he even bother with the Thorne family? Elodie never

to look at

of her lips faded. "Jarrod doesn't take Elodie seriously. Still, there's no telling what tricks she might try

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