Heartstrings on Fire

Chapter 24

Ryder strolled over, eyed Agnes and asked, “What are you doing here?”

Caught off guard. Agnes stammered, “It’s a long story”

The butler inquired, “Mr. Ryder, do you know them?”

Ryder pointed at Agnes and said, “She’s a friend”

He then glanced at Jenny and declared casually, “Don’t know this one though”

The butler got the drift immediately, and his attitude towards Agnes changed, “Since you’re a friend of Mr. Ryder, you can go in. But as for you, miss, without an invitation, you need to leave. If you try to sneak in over the wall again, we’ll call the cops.”

Jenny got kicked out.

Standing outside the Whitfield family mansion, Jenny was fuming. She couldn’t believe that Agnes had somehow gotten in with Ryder. Inside, it was all glitz and glamour, but she had got no part in it!

arm and said, “You’re hurt. Let me

and saw that she has scratched her arm on some

insisted, “It’s fine, I

grabbed her hand

Agnes got dragged into the Whitfield family’s

ballroom full of elegant people. It overflowed with champagne, crystal chandeliers casting light like

around, Agnes couldn’t help but be

was also grand, but compared to this, it seemed a bit behind the times. It was

elevator to avoid the crowd

asked,

taking up the position of Mrs. Whitfield’s too?”

Everyone’s saying your family is looking for a wife for Jared

coolly responded, “He won’t choose any of them. He already has someone he likes; he has liked

her heart. She thought to herself, “Jared

here, I’ll find you some clothes. There are many guests at