How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 405

The meeting time was set.

It wasn't until Tuesday that Elodie managed to carve out a window in her schedule

to head over to The Silverstein Group.

That afternoon.

Maurice Nilsson happened to be free, so he came along with Sylvie to The Silverstein Group's office.

The past few days had left Sylvie completely frazzled. She was up until the early hours, still negotiating contract terminations with partners.

When Neural Intelligence first launched their new system, VistaLink Technologies was mired in a plagiarism scandal. That bit of luck had sent a string of business opportunities straight to Neural Intelligence's door.

But now, with Terrence's team's latest system accused of infringing on VistaLink's patents, the tables had turned. Neural Intelligence had been ordered to cease and desist, and naturally, those promising partnerships were falling apart. Not only did contracts need to be dissolved, but Neural Intelligence was also expected to shoulder their partners' losses.

All Sylvie could do was try to keep the remaining partners calm. If another crisis erupted, the company's finances could freeze up overnight.

"I called Jarrod earlier-he's tied up this afternoon. Mind waiting a bit?" Maurice, well aware of the mountain Sylvie was facing, glanced over with concern.

"It's fine, I actually wanted to ask him about some contract issues anyway." Sylvie rubbed her forehead, exhaustion etched deeply into her features.

Maurice considered this. "Why not just let Jarrod handle the whole mess for you? It'd save you a lot of trouble."

Sylvie, brilliant though she was in technology, was still finding her feet in corporate management-especially now, with the company in such turmoil. It was a lot for anyone to handle.

"This happened on my watch. I should be the one to fix it. Live and learn, right? Besides, I don't want to rely on him for

funds had already been funneled out over the past few days. If things got worse, she'd have to ask her mother to help

still

dramatic reversal? In hindsight, it was obvious: when Alexander put Elodie on the front lines, she was both a scapegoat and a decoy-meant

talk to me," Sylvie replied, lips pressed into a thin line, a trace of amusement

the aftermath, though he hadn't given her any specifics. She hadn't wanted to do it, but there was no choice-refusing to admit fault now would only backfire, making her and the company

she had

for Elodie-she was only making things difficult in places like this because she knew she couldn't compete

out,"

secretariat bustled past in

stopped one of them to ask about Jarrod he wasn't in

seemed to be converging on the main conference room, everyone

welcome to wait in the lounge," Keith said as he passed, not forgetting to have Sylvie's favorite coffee brought over

them. t

caught the aroma of her favorite blend, some

Jarrod always remembered the little things, even when

isn't just an ordinary

noticed a group of familiar faces-some shareholders from The Silverstein Group and even a

Analytics-emerging from the

elevators.

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disbelief was clear in

a shareholder