How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 394

Elodie couldn't help but find the whole thing rather absurd.

Now that Sylvie was in hot water, Jarrod was suddenly calling her himself— something he'd always gone out of his way to avoid. Normally, he'd have Keith reach out on his behalf, as if she might somehow get hold of his direct number and use it against him.

But now? All that caution had gone out the window.

It was obvious what he wanted-he was hoping she'd let the whole Sylvie situation slide. Frankly, Elodie couldn't even be bothered to entertain that kind of conversation.

"Who was that?" Esmeralda asked, frowning in confusion.

Alexander glanced over, waiting for an answer.

Elodie shrugged, as if it was no big deal. "Jarrod."

At the sound of his name, Esmeralda's temper flared. She slammed her hand on the table and shot up from her chair. "Of course he calls now! The moment VistaLink Technologies runs into trouble and you get dragged into a lawsuit by Neural Intelligence, does he check in? Did he ever even ask if you were okay?"

Not once had Jarrod shown his face, let alone offered support.

But now, when it's Sylvie on the line, the double standard is impossible to ignore.

matter." Elodie really couldn't care less about the hypocrisy. She glanced at

years ago, including the optimized versions. With that evidence, the plagiarism accusations are dead in the water. Next step is pursuing criminal

a

forced to step

on the table, one wrong move and Sylvie

desperate-and

the start, Elodie had never intended to quietly sweep this under the rug. Letting herself be used as bait actually made their opponents act even more recklessly. They rushed to accuse and sue her, plastered statements all

shares only strengthened the evidence that VistaLink

case, Sylvie could

l.ne

ignored it. Then Neural Intelligence tried to reach out, calling both Alexander and the front desk, as well as the admin department? Elodie made

were refused.

had anything to say, they could say

for Jarrod, he seemed to get the message and didn't call again.

who had previously ended their contracts with VistaLink now came crawling back, begging to license

or patience

it all, making it clear and final:

Elodie received a call from the police department: there had