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-

already snapping a photo of the scene on

Alexander aside and whispered, "Didn't you add Sylvie as

want?" Alexander saw right through her

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

had a talent

was any better. Besides

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

had no idea what Esmeralda and Alexander were plotting. The ceremony

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At the mountain resort-

only saw Alexander's photo because Maurice forwarded

can't sit still, can she? She's already pulled Jarrod away. Is she doing

a big event at the resort, everything set-except Jarrod had

Sylvie's brow furrowed.

calculating than I thought.

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

that kind of

she kept

"Why does he even bother with the Thorne family? Elodie never dares confront him, so why

her phone, unwilling to look at that shameless photo any

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

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