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.

fists clenched, voice rising with desperation, "Did Jarrod say how he's going to fix this? He's not just

If he did...

work would have been for

And worse-

much money, only

the

the unanswered call, her

dread shot through Selma, her voice

about abandoning

This whole mess-

threads. She

"Jarrod poured a fortune into getting me onto that

resolute face, frustration

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

...Elodie?

but immediately

how toxic things were between Jarrod and Elodie. Their feud

the last person

wasn't for Seymour and his crew, Nexus Analytics never would've ended up in Elodie's hands." Sylvie forced herself to think

have predicted

Jarrod hadn't used Nexus Analytics as leverage to keep her

wouldn't even be