How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 773

A flicker of doubt crossed his eyes as he fixed Jarrod with a steady gaze. "Her uterus-there's something abnormal. Something that shouldn't be there."

Jarrod didn't look surprised. He slowly lifted his eyes, meeting the other man's stare. After a brief pause, he replied in a voice only the two of them could understand, "Yeah. You've probably guessed right."

Elodie was transferred into the private suite next to Jarrod's.

A steady stream of people came and went from the room.

At the end of the hallway, Ivan stood, watching the bustle from a distance.

He'd arrived the moment Elodie went into surgery. Deep down, though, he knew he had no real right to stand as family.

No matter how he turned it over, he owed her too much.

Now, seeing Elodie safe and out of surgery, it felt as though a weight had finally lifted from his chest-like he'd been given another chance at life.

Ivan walked out to the hospital's smoking area. His hands shook as he lit a cigarette, then he let out a bitter, self-mocking laugh.

Who was he kidding?

changed; they'd both changed. There was no

for Elodie with a devotion that Ivan himself couldn't

there for a long time, letting the cold seep into his bones, until his phone buzzed in his pocket. Queenie's name flashed across the screen-call after

He ignored them all.

scandal, the Jett family's empire unraveling.

had to be

a dangerous amount of blood. By the third

to grow

to go back to his own room, instead spending nearly every

edge of her bed, he tucked the blanket gently around her. "Wake up soon, alright? Let's start over. You've lost so much weight. When you're better, I'll make sure you get your strength back. You're beautiful no matter what, but I love seeing you healthy no more hospitals, no more

him, pulling a file folder from the bedside table and opening it with

was a single ring. He tipped it into his palm, then slid

hand and studying the way the

only pretend I didn't notice. I've been holding

never take them

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