How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 696

She had never asked before.

Back then, she always assumed she was the one gaining from it all, so the details hardly seemed to matter-after all, it was the Harcourt family reaping the Silverstein family's rewards.

Besides, she couldn't remember anything from that time. She'd been so lost, just swept along by everyone else, barely questioning a thing.

But today's events had shaken her, making her realize just how many mysteries from back then had never been solved.

Jarrod had never brought it up, either-not a word about how she'd ended up in Room 6606.

Elodie's question came out of nowhere.

Jarrod's hand paused, his fingers idly tracing the edge of his car key. After a moment, he answered simply, "Yeah, I knew."

Elodie stared, caught off guard.

Without turning around, Jarrod lowered his gaze. "There's no shortage of people

trying to pull a fast one, but not everyone can get one over on me."

Plenty of people dream of jumping the social ladder overnight.

But Elodie... she was the only exception.

He never glanced at her, just spoke calmly: "If Malcolm hadn't done what he did, there would've been a world of difference between the Harcourts and the Silversteins."

Without that leverage, the Silversteins would never have lowered themselves to accept an alliance. The path between him and Elodie would've been far more complicated, especially since there was nothing between them to begin with. But after what happened... it was as if fate had handed them a solution on a silver platter.

He'd always been honest with himself he didn't care about the process, only the result.

he said nothing more, simply got into

answer as she was going

So...

Did that mean... he'd been

process it right away, but pieces

made sense-if Jarrod hadn't "cooperated," no one could have pulled one

time, they'd

that Jarrod had been interested in her

been able to marry into the Silverstein family. The two families were simply

Elodie found herself lost in contemplation for

message from Esmeralda Mercer: [Oh my god, I was clearing out my contacts and saw Sylvie

at the

sent a

It was Sylvie's account.

and Jarrod

[BB]

typed, "That's

replied, "Yeah! I was about to delete her,

I'd labeled her

her username. What's up With that? Is she trying

say she's someone's 'baby'?

snooping, this is definitely going to cause

Elodie: "......"

Sylvie call Jarrod on Messenger once,

Jarrod who'd

so close that Jarrod of all people-would