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."

Ivan. He merely lowered his eyes and said quietly to Elodie,

Meanwhile, across the room-

a photo of the scene on her

"Didn't you add Sylvie as

you want?" Alexander saw right through her

Esmeralda sent him the

his tongue. Esmeralda truly had a talent for getting

Besides he

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

no idea what Esmeralda and Alexander were plotting. The ceremony

***

At the mountain resort-

saw Alexander's photo because Maurice forwarded

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

event at the resort, everything set-except Jarrod had

Sylvie's brow furrowed.

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

end, she still threw herself at Jarrod

hated that kind

yet she kept acting like

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

off her phone, unwilling to look at that shameless photo

"Jarrod doesn't take Elodie seriously. Still, there's no telling what

doing, or Elodie