How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 350

Elodie hadn't expected Charlie to give such a decisive answer.

She glanced up at his stern face and, for a moment, felt as if she were being shielded unconditionally—an unfamiliar sensation for her.

Sylvie's shock was written all over her face.

Charlie's words had landed with such finality, they shattered the careful arguments she'd prepared on her way here, leaving her with a vague, inescapable embarrassment.

Worse yet, Elodie had witnessed her being rebuffed at the door.

Jarrod shot Elodie a glance, a flicker of something unreadable passing through his eyes before he composed himself and spoke with steady calm. "Since you already have someone in mind, Professor, and you're not considering anyone else at the moment, I won't press the issue."

Sylvie's lips had gone pale. She cast Elodie a complicated look-part derision, part resignation—but she understood the situation well enough not to say anything more.

Charlie met Jarrod's eyes. For someone so young, Jarrod was remarkably poised and discreet. He'd done everything right for this meeting: tracked Charlie down at VistaLink Technologies, requested a face-to-face, showed respect without arrogance, and knew how to read the room.

And yet...

was astonishingly

With that, Charlie turned and walked

spare them so much as a glance,

up their minds about her. Better to spend her energy where

research on since before the holidays. If she could discuss it in detail with him, she might have a real shot at pushing the country's drone technology forward a goal that urgently needed his

retreating figure for a

always the favored one, and now she'd lost out

Maurice hurried over, sounding out

eyes darkened a little as he replied, "Professor Sterling

taken aback. "What? Then who did

voice to remain even

to catch up. After a long

word for her to get her in on a technicality? Even if