How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 290

Chapter 290

Alexander's words caught everyone off guard.

The gentle, sincere look on Sylvie's face faded, if only a little.

For a moment, she wondered if she'd misheard him.

But Jarrod, standing to the side, was utterly unmoved. He raised his eyes with a lazy indifference, glanced at Elodie, and the depths of his gaze remained calm, an almost imperceptible hint of a smile tracing his lips.

Elodie, too, showed no reaction. Not a flicker of emotion crossed her face at Alexander's remark.

Jarrod's gaze lingered for a moment, then drifted away, a quiet amusement glinting in his eyes as if he'd thought of something.

Sylvie pressed her lips together, then spoke, her tone composed and unbothered. "Mr. Sterling, I know this is a difficult request for you."

She honestly hadn't expected Alexander to be so unwilling to approach the professor about this, nor for him to come up with such an outlandish excuse.

just to subtly decline her

being perfectly sincere. I'll keep trying to get into the professor's graduate program, so please, Mr.

from Alexander-who was one of the rare few with an obvious head start-her own qualifications were near the top of

from Alexander, it still wasn't enough to

words seem to surprise him. He simply said, unhurried, “It's all right, Mr. Sterling. Don't trouble yourself. We can talk

forced a smile that never reached his eyes,

only Sylvie would believe it. But there was no point in trying to convince people

Just then, Jason arrived.

matters, Jarrod glanced at Elodie, then back at Alexander, giving a polite nod. "Mr. Sterling, you and

paused for a

these situations. She thought the best approach was simply

Elodie might get the wrong idea

cool, serene expression gave nothing away, as if she hadn't

in, "Of

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