How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

"No need," Jarrod replied, glancing over at the cabinet. "Would you mind grabbing a blanket and covering Elodie?"

Lucinda felt a surge of annoyance catch in her throat.

"I just got here, and the moment you open your eyes you're already ordering me

to take care of your wife?" Though she complained, she lowered her voice out of respect for the sleeping Elodie.

Jarrod didn't have much energy to argue, his tone lazy and indifferent. "If I were able to move, I wouldn't be asking you."

"...."

Now Lucinda was sure of it.

Jarrod couldn't be that badly hurt-he woke up and the first thing he did was find a way to get under her skin.

She pressed her lips together, but still turned to fetch a clean blanket. Moving carefully, she draped it softly over Elodie.

Then, face still cold, she looked back at Jarrod. "Happy now?"

Jarrod just gave a languid nod. "Thank you for your trouble."

Lucinda huffed and sat down on the other side of the room. She'd already gotten most of the story from Andrea.

Instinctively, she wanted to blame Elodie—after all, Malcom was Elodie's father.

But...

came

a

than Elodie, knowing

was, had forced herself to The Silverstein Group headquarters,

injured, the second branch made their move-they secretly allied with some on the board, hoping to get

that was

pin the blame for the stalled project on

had their way, they'd have voted to

Jarrod's roots at headquarters ran too

lingered on Elodie's face for a moment before

followed his gaze, unable to stand the way he looked at Elodie, as if he wished he could

situation, signed the liability agreement herself,

she was willing to use her connections, reputation be damned. Abthis point, the

all

Klein wasn't something you could

only because Elodie

strings for

to

down Sprague's ambitions to return and take

at Elodie's pale

arm.

He swallowed hard.

holding it together herself, yet she'd still gone toe-to-toe with those

night, nearly falling to her death, and with his own condition so grave, a heavy ache