How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 814

Jarrod stood by the window, his expression clouded with worry as he looked down at the chaos unfolding below. Elodie was still missing-no one had found her yet.

And with others circling like sharks, he knew he had to tread even more carefully

now.

He turned to Fleming, who was working intently at the console ahead. "What brings Mr. Mercer here?"

Without pausing, Fleming replied, "Esmeralda asked me to come in and look for Ms. Thorne. I thought she might be with you."

Jarrod's heart sank.

Clearly, Elodie was still nowhere to be found.

"I haven't found her yet," he murmured, eyes dropping to the wedding ring on his finger.

Fleming continued, "I've already searched both the west and south wings-no sign of her. Which way did you come in, Mr. Silverstein?"

This area wasn't all that big, but with the ongoing chaos and people trapped everywhere, finding anyone was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

thought. "So we

evacuating as a team. Finding

gaze sharpened. "If it was a team, they should've checked in with

it were just Elodie, maybe something had happened to her alone. But for a whole team to vanish?

it shouldn't be this difficult

Unless...

possible they're

half an hour ago—the military had already been dispatched to aid the search, but so far,

was starting

out his phone, trying again to

Elodie was no longer in the area, he'd consider using satellite

team and headed

Night had fallen.

on the ground floor to rest-one

any of her colleagues. Watts was missing, too; maybe

had no idea what

retreated for a break, leaving

She slipped out onto the bedroom's small

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