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.

voice rising with desperation, "Did Jarrod say how

If he did...

months of work would

And worse-

money, only to

would reap the

thought of the unanswered call, her

shot through Selma, her voice dropping

about

This whole mess-

were too many tangled threads. She

a fortune into getting me onto that research team,

resolute face, frustration simmering in her

this to happen why hadn't he warned. Sylvie given her any chance to prepare? But if he had done on purpose, for what

...Elodie?

frowned, but immediately dismissed

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

Jarrod, Elodie was the last person

how could Jarrod have known about the criminal charges between Neural Intelligence and VistaLink Technologies? If it wasn't for Seymour and his crew, Nexus Analytics never would've ended up in Elodie's hands." Sylvie forced

have predicted

used Nexus Analytics as

wouldn't even be sitting