How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 279

He turned and looked after Elodie as she walked away.

The man beside him frowned in confusion. "What is it, Mr. Aldridge?"

Up on the top deck, the engagement party was in full swing, glasses clinking and laughter echoing through the air.

It was the engagement of Mr. Harcourt, the CEO of TerraGreen Solutions-a grand affair, attended by a sizable crowd.

The atmosphere was already buzzing.

Elodie spotted Ivan across the room. Even on his engagement day, he looked utterly relaxed-one hand in his pocket, his expression brooding yet nonchalant. In contrast, Queenie by his side was all radiant excitement.

For some reason, Ivan glanced her way almost instantly.

In that moment, his gaze locked onto hers, a look both intense and challenging.

He flashed a smile-wry, a little mocking, and thoroughly unapologetic.

Elodie pretended not to notice, turning away, intent on finding Elias to see if he had arrived yet.

That's when, out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of Jarrod.

He was standing nearby, Sylvie at his side in an elegant gown, surrounded by a small circle of guests.

She wasn't sure when they'd arrived.

Maybe it was her imagination, but Jarrod seemed to lift his lashes and glance at her—cool, distant, almost unrecognizable.

looked every inch the composed, self-assured figure

close friends. Of course they'd both be here

mind and slipped away toward Alexander and

recognized quite a few faces

already made her rounds, adding half the room's worth of

exchanging pleasantries with an acquaintance. “Don't bother looking-Mr. Warwick didn't show, but

his tone sugary-sweet. "Your ex-husband and your oh-so-ambitious sister are deep in conversation. You'd think they were joined at the hip-someone might mistake them

talent under the guise of 'networking'; running into them at these events was

Alexander was being downright polite

"

no interest

considered her last conversation with Naylor a definitive end to

on, even a

come, but since she was here, she might as

Elodie

since the Warwick family's birthday dinner,

have to act so superior with him? As

a glare as he took

party itself was quite unconventional-a fresh concept, almost certainly Queenie's

the usual speeches, the evening kicked off with

raised since childhood with Malcom's brand of elite training, was in his element. He finished the first dance with

our engagement with all of you. I hope

from the stage, choosing instead to sink into the

no intention of joining