How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue novel Chapter 596

Elodie paused mid-step, but with so many people around and too many ears listening, she didn’t say anything. She just followed Alexander upstairs.

Back in the office, Esmeralda rushed in, breathless from hurrying.

“What happened? How did this blow up out of nowhere?” she demanded, looking anxiously at Elodie.

Elodie’s eyes were fixed on the news breaking on her tablet.

Alexander’s expression was grim. “It came out of nowhere—no warning at all. Who knew about what happened back then?”

Elodie stared at the report. Every line painted her as someone who’d used underhanded tactics to help Jarrod, even detailing how she’d supposedly “called in” reporters to orchestrate the whole scene. The piece all but branded her as manipulative and shameless.

“There’s no shortage of people who know,” Elodie replied, frowning.

Back then, Malcom had pulled every string he could for the Harcourt family’s business—leaning on old ties with both the Thorne and Silverstein families, desperate for the benefits the Silversteins could bring. He’d resorted to aggressive tactics, even inviting a few industry journalists to cover the event.

He’d tipped off Henrietta as quickly as possible, making it clear the Silversteins were getting the better end of the deal. Out of loyalty to her grandfather’s wartime friendship with Jarrod’s grandfather, Henrietta started pressuring Jarrod to go through with the wedding.

They’d boxed him in from every angle, leaving Jarrod no way to refuse.

The whole thing had been so convoluted that even Elodie, caught in the middle, had felt dazed by it all.

When she thought about it, there really were quite a few people who knew how it went down.

Jarrod managed to suppress the story at the time, but those journalists had since faded into obscurity.

“Who the hell would do this, after all these years? It’s just low!” Esmeralda fumed, nearly shaking with anger. “The marriage is over, for God’s sake. What do they want from you? Have they no shame?”

And to make matters worse, this was happening just as Elodie’s reputation was soaring.

She was a rare genius in the scientific community—everyone was watching her, rooting for her.