How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 573

"Got it," Elodie replied.

At this point, the truth was out-there was no way she could bluff her way past

Jarrod's grandmother.

She ended the call.

She didn't ask Jarrod to pick her up, either. There was no need to put on that awkward show, making things uncomfortable for everyone.

When work was finally done, Elodie glanced at the clock. Near seven, she drove out toward Moonlight Garden.

Rainy season had arrived.

Halfway there, the skies opened up. The world filled with the earthy, damp scent of wet soil.

When she arrived, she stepped out beneath her umbrella.

But at the door, she paused-she didn't know the new passcode.

Ever since Jarrod had bought back the house as their marital home, all the codes had been changed.

If she rang the bell, his grandmother might sense something was off.

Elodie frowned, considering her options.

Just then, footsteps sounded behind her. A crisp, cool scent of fir needles drifted

in the wet air. Before she could turn, someone caught her wrist and guided her index finger to the fingerprint scanner.

Beep, beep-

The door unlocked.

looked up

released her, his pale eyes

all he

inside first, umbrella in

She couldn't quite wrap

her fingerprint was still in the system? Had he just forgotten to

the thought go and stepped

she remembered had all changed. Unfamiliar art and decorations filled the space. It bore no trace of the home she'd lived in for three years, the one she'd

a brand-new house-a home that belonged to someone

the feeling linger for just a

turned to look at her,

him, but said nothing,

living room, where Lucinda Howard was

in from the kitchen, Linsey

she saw Elodie, the

you ever mention Elodie's situation? You kept

couldn't believe Jarrod had been

known-he'd just chosen not to say

outsiders, knowing

a brow. "There were special

looked ready

"I'm sorry, Grandma. I had confidentiality requirements. I couldn't

the old

just overwhelmed her remarkable granddaughter had kept

whole truth was out. It hardly felt

valued in her field had lived among