How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 278

Lucinda couldn't help but wonder-was Elodie implying she hadn't been much of a mother? That she had no right to ask anything of her?

But almost immediately, Lucinda dismissed the thought. Elodie would never dare to think that way.

Without checking if Lucinda understood her meaning, Elodie merely nodded, then turned and walked away.

Lucinda frowned at Elodie's retreating figure. In the past, she would have been pleased with Elodie's polite, distant manner. It meant Elodie knew how to behave.

But now, for some reason, it just felt... insulting.

The next day, Elodie visited the hospital to meet the specialist Elias had recommended-a man named Dr. Latham.

He was not yet forty, an expert who had returned from abroad alongside Elias, and his office was filled with photos of them treating patients all over the world. Clearly, the hospital had spared no expense to bring him back.

After reviewing Emile's case, Dr. Latham said, "We can schedule the surgery. Elias already briefed me. Don't worry, I'll do everything I can."

Elodie thanked him, but her gaze drifted to a framed photograph of Dr. Latham and Elias together. Below Elias's image was an unfamiliar name, spelled out in English.

She couldn't quite make it out.

and smiled. "Fergus. That's the name he used while working

up in surprise. Elias was

this expert named Fergus. After all her searching, it turned out to be

Now that she knew Elias was Fergus, hope fluttered in her chest. If he couldn't personally oversee Emile's

in thought, she had barely stepped off the

and pressed a gold-embossed invitation into her

Esmeralda said, her expression complicated. Elodie glanced

an engagement party invitation-from Ivan

The party's this Friday. Remember at the Jett family's charity gala, Ivan said that if he ever got engaged,

had stolen the spotlight at that event,

the invitation, he passed along a message from Ivan: he hasn't invited a single person from the Harcourt family. If you don't show up, he'll come

he meant it. And knowing

she asked, "So everyone who went to the charity gala

I'm sure the others did too. It's a great networking opportunity-no

and set the invitation on the desk, unconcerned. "I'll

congratulations. Who he ended up with didn't

and Warwick families did