How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

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

an alarm and crashed for the entire

of bed.

genuinely happy for her, so she had no intention of dampening

together and headed to the restaurant Alexander had picked out. Over dinner, she told them about Jarrod giving her a stake in Nexus Analytics. Esmeralda nearly choked on her

the many companies under The Silverstein Group, but it was a heavy-hitter-top three in its field across the

be feeling charitable," Esmeralda said, eyes wide with suspicion. "Wait-could this be

a company for Sylvie in the first place," Alexander

a prime example: calculating, cold, and completely heartless. So much

the beneficiary. Unless Nexus Analytics

high spirits

and quick to get tipsy-plus, with her health, drinking was out of the question. She was about to decline when

asked softly, "What's wrong,

and handed his phone to Elodie.