How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 323

For a split second, you could have heard a pin drop in the vast conference room.

Sylvie's usually gentle face registered a flash of shock before she met Elodie's gaze-calm, cold, and unyielding. There was no room left for negotiation.

It was a long, heavy silence.

At last, Sylvie's expression softened.

She had been right about Elodie's character, after all.

Even at a critical project meeting, Elodie couldn't resist dragging in personal grievances, resorting to these pitiful little tricks to defend her so-called dignity. Sylvie leaned back in her chair, deciding she wouldn't dignify it with a response.

Suddenly, the whole scene struck her as faintly tragic: Elodie, so starved for affection, lashing out in all the wrong places. What was the point in arguing further, really?

Just then, Elodie's icy gaze locked with the man standing in the doorway, his dark eyes steady and inscrutable. He was watching her, thoughts impossible to read.

Jarrod stood there, Alexander just behind him.

Of all times, Elodie hadn't expected Jarrod to walk in and witness this moment- nothing hidden, nothing spared.

met his eyes, refusing to look away. Whatever he thought of her, she

away the last pretense between them,

was a glint of amusement; clearly, he'd caught every word of Elodie's bold

Anyone who crossed

so inappropriate, he'd have

going on in here?" Alexander breezed in, feigning ignorance as he pushed open the door and gestured

a complicated mix of resignation and composure on her face, but

she simply asked, "Jarrod,

didn't reply, but took the

finish the meeting, and Maurice has booked lunch for us. We can head over together once we're done," he said quietly, not

the tension in

words to heart-if Elodie had any real

for me." She smiled, her voice tinged with a warmth meant for Jarrod alone, shutting out the rest of

Jarrod simply nodded.

didn't spare them another

really. A man as busy as Jarrod, taking time out of his schedule to personally escort Sylvie-just to make sure she wasn't put at a disadvantage at

here to protect her, no question. She was