Chapter 273

"Is Sylvie on the call too?"

"Yeah."

"Put me on speaker."

Jarrod tapped the phone and switched to speaker mode.

Only then did Maurice ask, "Has Joseph reached out to you? Have you noticed he's been super busy lately? I tried to make dinner plans with him today, but he said he had something going on. No idea what he's up to!"

Sylvie paused.

Lately, Joseph had barely been in touch. Even when she messaged him about something, it was rare for him to reply. He seemed distant, almost cold.

She tried to convince herself that it wasn't intentional-he was probably just swamped at work.

Elias, Elodie went straight

an alarm and crashed for the

six by the time she finally dragged herself out of bed. The worst of the post- chemo

genuinely happy

Over dinner, she told them about Jarrod giving her a stake in Nexus Analytics. Esmeralda nearly choked on her drink. "Nexus

companies under The Silverstein Group, but it was a heavy-hitter-top three in its field across the region, and well-respected to

charitable," Esmeralda said, eyes wide with suspicion. "Wait-could this be his way of compensating you? Because he set up a company for

feelings, he wouldn't have started a company for Sylvie in the first

he thought, were simply shameless-Jarrod being a prime example: calculating, cold, and completely heartless. So much for the old

dwell on it. As things stood, she was the beneficiary. Unless Nexus Analytics ran into serious trouble, all she had to do

was in high spirits and

of the question. She was about to decline when she noticed Alexander's face had gone cold as he stared

then asked

was grim. He looked up and handed his phone to Elodie. "Someone just

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