How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 413

Lucinda decided to be honest-after all, she didn't even know how Jarrod had managed to convince his great-grandfather to reach out and arrange a meeting with Waldron. That was no small feat.

"Well, let's just leave it to fate," Jarrod replied, sounding remarkably calm, as if he already knew how things would turn out.

Lucinda studied him. "What are you really thinking? You could have met with Mr. Ferguson on your own first. Instead, you brought him to meet both me and your great-grandfather. Are you trying to set something up between him and someone

else?"

Sylvie's reputation had definitely taken a hit lately.

At a time like this, Lucinda genuinely hoped Jarrod would be more cautious.

Jarrod slipped his phone into his pocket, glanced sidelong at Lucinda, and his lips curled in a faint, enigmatic smile. "I thought you liked her."

Lucinda frowned slightly at that.

But Jarrod was already brushing past her into the next room, clearly not interested in elaborating.

Meeting Waldron at Goldspire today had been completely unexpected.

But it was certainly a shock.

room, Esmeralda was still sulking. "Honestly, I think Jarrod just wants to help Sylvie because she's starting to lose ground

how influential Waldron

seemed all the

and flicked Esmeralda on the forehead before saying, "It might not work out. Mr. Ferguson is notoriously eccentric—there's no guarantee he'll

He glanced at Elodie.

was almost ironic-who could have guessed that after the falling out all those years

he truly wants," Elodie remarked thoughtfully. "If Jarrod managed to get him to show up,

Alexander frowned, considering that.

It made sense.

fact that Elodie could calmly analyze how

Vel

even meeting the family about it-left him with a strange, complicated feeling he couldn't quite put into

for her part, didn't seem bothered. When you love someone,

for them, no

their rooms for the

to keep working on her

final stretch now-just a bit

perspective, so she felt this paper was her strongest yet, much better than the two she'd published a few

Esmeralda sent a screenshot to their

post Sylvie had just

of a grand mansion with classic landscaping, captioned: