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.

her Ivan had left town to lay low. She had no idea what really happened to Ivan—at least, not until Malcom pulled his own strings. When everything unfolded with Jarrod, Malcom finally bared his teeth. He threatened her with Ivan's fate: if she didn't

be 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 wasn't completely rotten

fall for him over time-deeper and

And now...

about Ivan's case was so

eyes dark and stormy. "You, of all people-the one who actually

and

she slept, torn between

Elodie, so fragile and

she had

the dots? How could he not feel the

like a physical blow. He stared at Elodie, white as a sheet. "I didn't know...

for a whole month. He'd assumed she was disgusted with him, that she wanted nothing

was getting married, and that she wouldn't be visiting anymore-she hoped