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 straight

out-set an alarm and crashed for the entire

dragged herself out of bed. The worst of the post- chemo misery

they were genuinely happy for her, so she

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 drink. "Nexus Analytics? Twenty percent? Since when is

of the many companies under The Silverstein Group, but it was a heavy-hitter-top three

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

he wouldn't have started a company for Sylvie in the first place," Alexander scoffed. "And since he did, there's no way he feels

calculating, cold, and completely heartless. So

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

was in high spirits and suggested

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

asked softly, "What's

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