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.

meeting Elias, Elodie went

out-set an alarm and crashed for the

the time she finally dragged herself out of bed.

was treating everyone to dinner. Elodie knew they were genuinely happy for her, so she

them about Jarrod giving her

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

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

actually cared about Elodie's feelings, he wouldn't have started a company for Sylvie in the first place," Alexander scoffed. "And since he did, there's

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

the beneficiary. Unless Nexus Analytics ran into serious trouble, all she had to do was sit back

in high spirits and suggested

a lightweight and quick to get tipsy-plus, with her health, drinking was out of the question. She was about to decline when she noticed Alexander's face had gone cold as he stared at his

then asked softly,

up and handed his phone to