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.

behind him, he looked every inch

that Sylvie and Queenie were close friends. Of course they'd both

it no mind and slipped away toward

a

adding half the room's worth of contacts

“Don't bother looking-Mr. Warwick didn't

a corner, his tone sugary-sweet. "Your ex-husband and your oh-so-ambitious sister are deep in conversation.

talent under the guise of 'networking'; running

being downright polite by not saying something

"

no interest in

conversation with Naylor a definitive end

now on, even a

but since she was here, she

noticed Elodie the moment he

since the Warwick family's birthday dinner, he'd

have to act so superior with him? As if she

glare as he took a

unconventional-a

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

you for joining Ivan and me tonight. We're so happy to be celebrating our engagement with all of you.

stage, choosing instead to sink

intention of