How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 609

"Then you could have just told me up front that we needed to focus on my health first, instead of going behind my back and pulling these tricks. You gave me hope, then shattered it yourself. Jarrod, the truth is, you simply didn't want a child-no need to dress it up as something noble."

That was what Elodie found most infuriating-utterly incomprehensible!

A flicker crossed Jarrod's eyes, but this time, he didn't bother to explain. He just looked at her, silent and unmoving.

Maybe neither of them was in a good place emotionally. The tension hung between them, a thick, uneasy pause.

It was all in the past now. Still, this issue remained a splinter in Elodie's heart.

If, at the time, she'd fought to have a baby-if she'd insisted-maybe she would never have had to endure the pain of losing her uterus after falling ill, never have known the agony of being told she could never have children.

But then, thinking back with hindsight, if she really had gotten pregnant, what would have happened with her and Jarrod? Would they have been able to go their separate ways so cleanly?

The thought drained the last of her strength. She felt utterly spent, body and soul.

What was the point in dwelling on it? Was there even anything left to hold onto now?

gently tugged her down onto the couch. Squatting in front of her, he looked up and said, "After everything I've put you through-even when you could've slapped me, you

turned colder still, eyes brimming with icy

she'd suffered, he still had the nerve to call her good-tempered. What

were discussing the weather: "If we'd

hypothetical, one that

consider such

child, because all she'd ever wanted was a real home, a

stranger to who she'd been. So when Jarrod asked her, she

"Children aren't a requirement for your life.

understood what he

always fall in love again, get

But... everything had changed.

though Dr. Warwick had told her she could keep her uterus, the truth

There was never a perfect

his actions, but whatever his reasons were... she no longer had

leaving only a cold acceptance. She'd run out of strength