How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 433

Putting everything else aside, the fact that Jarrod brought Sylvie to an academic conference of this caliber-introducing her to top international scholars and letting her mingle at a level she'd never normally reach-really showed how invested he was in grooming his future Mrs. Silverstein.

Elodie herself hadn't expected to be called out as an example.

But honestly, she was more preoccupied with wondering when she'd hear back about the third paper she'd submitted recently.

Alexander glanced toward the other side of the room. "Come on, I'll introduce you to Professor Steene."

Elodie nodded.

After all, she'd kept a low profile ever since the development of U.N2, only recently starting to gain recognition in the field. It was no surprise that many people didn't know who she was.

Meanwhile, Sylvie made her way over to Jarrod.

She found him still seated, eyes fixed on the conference screen where the research paper was still displayed.

"Jarrod?" Sylvie settled in beside him, catching the author's name—El Thorne— out of the corner of her eye. "That name kind of looks like Elodie's, doesn't it?"

She wasn't sure which letters, exactly, but the similarity was there.

Jarrod nodded mildly. "It does."

convinced there was no connection to Elodie. Five years ago, Elodie had barely been out of school-how could she possibly have written something at this level? Besides, if Elodie had been involved, she wouldn't have been

there was no way the two could be

“Honestly, I didn't follow much of that paper today. I'll probably ask my advisor to help me download it when I get back home so I can study

access to the full text, so she'd either have to

about this mysterious author

pulling his attention from the screen and rising

was a giant in applied sciences, with research spanning bioengineering and beyond. Internationally,

before, so when Alexander approached,

being nearly sixty, Steene was anything but

to introduce his companion. "This is Elodie, one of our engineers at VistaLink Technologies. She's the mind behind the

Elodie was stepping back

give her the

in surprise. "Ms. Thorne, I had no idea you

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor

eager to

a

technical conversation, his

for Elodie was

frankly, in a different

they parted, Steene extended an invitation. "Are