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.

into this just to subtly

I'll keep trying to get into the professor's graduate

field. Aside from Alexander-who was one of the rare few with

from Alexander, it still wasn't enough to meet the standards of her thesis. In fact, Elodie was

opinion, nor did Alexander's words seem to surprise him. He simply said, unhurried, “It's all right, Mr. Sterling. Don't trouble yourself. We can

never

there was no point in trying to convince people determined not to listen; they already had

Just then, Jason arrived.

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

for a

best approach was simply to ignore her-no need to make a show of

the wrong idea

Her cool, serene expression

the diplomat, chimed in, "Of course. Take

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