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

wiped out-set an alarm and crashed for the

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

were genuinely happy for

got herself 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 drink. "Nexus Analytics? Twenty percent? Since when is Jarrod so

but it was a heavy-hitter-top three in its field across the region, and

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

wouldn't have started a company for Sylvie in the first place," Alexander

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

was the beneficiary. Unless Nexus Analytics ran into serious trouble, all she

Esmeralda 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 she noticed Alexander's face had gone cold as he stared

then asked softly, "What's wrong,

looked up and handed his phone to Elodie. "Someone just sent me a photo.