How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 579

Chapter 579

The terms had nothing to do with the company; Sylvie had signed them herself.

Which meant that now...

Andrea looked at her calmly. "This agreement was signed in Ms. Fielding's personal capacity. It's not binding on the company, so Ms. Fielding will need to pay an additional sixty million herself."

Sylvie felt her face go rigid, then drain of all color.

She'd completely forgotten about the private bet she'd signed. Even though Neural Intelligence had changed hands, the agreement only bound her, personally.

Jarrod had never brought it up, and she'd taken that as a sign he didn't intend to hold it over her.

She never imagined that, now that she was backed into a corner, the agreement would resurface-

It was the final straw, the one that would break her.

Sylvie stared at Jarrod, disbelief etched across her face. "Jarrod, you're joking, aren't you?"

He stood beneath a black umbrella, approaching slowly, separated from her by the doorway.

His expression was as unreadable as ever. "If everything's settled, you should head home."

Sylvie's breath came in jagged bursts, her eyes rimmed red. "Jarrod, what... what is this supposed to mean?"

darkness in his eyes reflecting the cold drizzle of the

lurched forward, grabbing the door frame. "Can we talk? I admit it—I shouldn't have tried to get involved with Mr. Ferguson. I know that put you in a difficult spot. But we... we made things

had taken them so long

supposed to be

disdain from Maurice and Joseph; she didn't care about

she couldn't accept

to demand payment on the

unchanged, utterly composed. "What relationship do

question hit her

into his eyes and felt a chill seep into

this before, but only now did she truly see it-the cold, indifferent distance that had

accepted

That night, you

like me-I know

do." Sylvie's voice trembled,

already won him over-compared to Elodie, that bland little woman, Sylvie

slipped, but beneath that veneer

do with other men is none of my

eyes widened in

lips quivered. "It wasn't you? That's

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