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.

care less about the hypocrisy. She glanced

has to cooperate too. We've already submitted all our records from five years ago, including the optimized versions. With that evidence, the plagiarism accusations are dead in the water. Next

a heavy

been forced

criminal charges on the table, one wrong move and Sylvie could be looking

desperate-and

this under the rug. Letting herself be used as bait actually made their opponents act

only strengthened the evidence

Sylvie could see up to two years

l.ne

investigation. Sylvie called once-Alexander ignored it. Then Neural Intelligence tried to reach out, calling both Alexander

were refused.

they had anything to say, they could

and didn't call again. What he planned to do

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

or patience

final: from now

call from the police department: there had been