How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Ivan's face drained of all color in an instant, as if a tidal wave had crashed over him.

-The Harcourt family and the Jett family set him up?

Even Elodie was momentarily caught off guard.

Back then, Ivan's downfall had come out of nowhere. Thanks to his talent, he'd been thriving in the Harcourt Group, but trouble struck when one of his subordinates messed up. A massive hole opened up in the budget for a joint project with the Jett Group, and as the main person in charge, Ivan was the first to take the fall.

He'd been so arrogant in those days. Naturally, he'd made plenty of enemies.

Then, just before he was about to be taken in, disaster struck. His life was nearly on the line.

He'd been set up, blindsided—and that was when Elodie had stepped in, just in time. In the chaos, she'd taken the hit meant for him.

Ivan ended up in the hospital and then straight into custody.

As for Elodie, her injuries were severe; she spent a month in the hospital, unconscious for several days. She'd always been frail, even as a child.

town to lay low. She had no idea what really happened to Ivan—at least, not until Malcom pulled his own strings.

anyone's sacrificial pawn, but

In her eyes, Jarrod was just another victim, and she felt guilty for dragging him into the mess. She tried to make their marriage work, wanting Jarrod to believe it

him over time-deeper and deeper, until there was no turning

And now...

truth about Ivan's case was so much crueler

expression was icier than she'd ever seen, his eyes dark and stormy. "You, of all people-the one who actually benefited from this-what right do you have to

voice broke off, hoarse and

those years, he'd traced the scar on Elodie's body as she slept, torn between anger and jealousy, but mostly overwhelmed

fragile

she had

could he not feel the anger rising

staggered, the truth hitting him like a physical blow. He stared at Elodie, white as a sheet. "I didn't know... I didn't

didn't visit him for a whole month. He'd assumed she was disgusted with him, that

him she was getting married, and that she wouldn't be visiting