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."

was 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

of that paper today. I'll probably ask my advisor

so she'd either have to buy it or get her advisor's

about this mysterious author who'd never

definitely worth digging into," Jarrod replied, finally pulling his

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

legendary Charlie Sterling. They'd met a couple of times before,

and despite being nearly

companion. "This is Elodie, one of our engineers at VistaLink Technologies.

was stepping back into the spotlight, Alexander

give her the recognition

Thorne, I had

poise. "It's a pleasure to meet

eager to

a few minutes

technical conversation, his

for Elodie

frankly, in a different

Steene extended an invitation. "Are you