How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 529

Jarrod's phone went straight to voicemail.

Sylvie drew a shaky breath, unable to quiet the restless anxiety clawing in her chest.

The disaster at the art show, her shares stripped away... everything unraveling at once.

"What's going on?" Selma had rushed back after getting Sylvie's rambling call— something so out of character, it instantly signaled this was no trivial matter.

Sylvie met her mother's gaze, eyes cold and laced with bitter irony. "Neural Intelligence is gone. We have nothing left to do with it."

She sketched out the whole mess in a few clipped sentences.

Selma's heart clenched, a wave of weakness sweeping through her. She sank onto the couch, face blanching. "How could Jarrod forget something like this? Why didn't he warn you, at least?"

A throbbing headache bloomed behind Sylvie's eyes. She hesitated, then remembered what Maurice had said. Lowering her head, she drew in a sharp breath. “If Elodie hadn't fought me tooth and nail back then, Nexus Analytics... maybe that would've been Jarrod's way to back me up."

Maurice had a point.

Using Nexus Analytics to invest in Neural Intelligence would have been the obvious move.

If it hadn't been for Seymour and Terrence, she never would have clashed with Elodie so fiercely.

She wouldn't have handed over Nexus Analytics on a silver platter.

of her trance. Her fists clenched, voice rising with desperation, "Did

If he did...

work would have been

And worse-

invested so much money, only to lose it

reap the rewards of

of the unanswered call, her

shot through Selma, her voice dropping to a

about

This whole mess-

many tangled threads. She

tone icy, almost reflexive. "Jarrod poured a fortune into getting me onto that research team, sending me

Sylvie's resolute face, frustration simmering in her

to happen why hadn't he warned. Sylvie given her any chance to prepare? But if he

...Elodie?

but immediately dismissed the

how toxic things were between Jarrod and Elodie. Their feud was practically

Jarrod, Elodie was the last person

for Seymour and his crew, Nexus Analytics never would've ended up

could have predicted any

Jarrod hadn't used Nexus Analytics as leverage to keep

wouldn't even be sitting