How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 737

It was nothing, really.

A phone on the table buzzed to life.

Jarrod spared it only a passing glance.

Unknown number.

He pressed decline.

Whoever was on the other end seemed to grow impatient and kept calling, again

and again.

In between flipping through The Harcourt Group's files, Jarrod simply blocked the

number.

Elodie hadn't rested for long.

Her last episode had caught everyone off guard.

There was still unfinished business at the research base-she needed to wrap up

phase one of the project.

She made her way to the hangar to test the new system.

System maintenance was a tedious process, requiring round after round of

diagnostics.

By the time she finished, evening was drawing near.

Walking from the hangar toward the data center, she crossed paths with Watts,

who had just stepped out of his car.

Ever since the incident a while back, Elodie hadn't seen Watts in some time.

Watts caught sight of her-his usually composed expression flickered with

something unspoken.

He stood there, watching her.

her focus

hands.

were still investigating her claim about the data

it wasn't a simple matter-there were no leads

already figured out

kind of person she was

intention of

a greeting, just turned

out first. "Elodie, can we

had no choice

no one else around; his voice was

see it plainly-Elodie's indifference, her refusal to

him.

over,

"You've

haven't you? There's

just here to hand in

the project

turned to the

that

"You think I set

your suspension... all of

the

without a trace

you did or

just a

don't interest

darkened

and walked

could only watch

did the full weight of

A colleague?

Irrelevant?

tone had been almost gentle, emotionless, yet the words landed with

him

storm clouds gathering in

He barely noticed.

was nagging

Patricia's call.

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