Heartstrings on Fire

Chapter 54

Agnes was sitting there, all chilled.

The feast kicked off in no time.

With the music blaring, the lights in the banquet hall suddenly dimmed. Jenny, arm in arm with Elton, strolled up to the stage along a plush, rose–red carpet.

Jenny had switched to an uber–luxe wedding gown.

Both of them were total lookers and seemed like a match made in heaven.

Agnes overheard some hushed whispers from the next table: “Who’d have thought Elton would pop the question so young? I wonder whose daughter this Jenny is. I haven’t seen her folks around.”

“I reckon they’re tying the knot ‘cause they’ve got a bun in the oven. Why else would they get engaged before even graduating?”

“I heard Elton was once betrothed to the Pritchard family’s daughter. The Taylors and the Pritchards have always been thick as thieves, but there were no Pritchards in sight at Elton’s engagement today.”

were now on stage.

some questions about their love story, all

the time, it was only Jenny answering. Elton was giving her the cold

Elton’s eyes were glued

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of the feast, and the big screen

stage, a recording suddenly blared from the big screen: “Patrick, I need you to forge a

we’re doctors. We

marry into the Taylor family. Once I become their daughter–in–law, I’ll hand over five percent of the Taylor Group’s shares to you. Think about it;

a rich family based on a lie? If it gets out, wouldn’t it implicate me and the

need you to stage a fake miscarriage for me. If I didn’t have the confidence, would I come to you? Isn’t the billions of assets in the Taylor Group

pin–drop silence. The host

was frozen. Because the voice in

and now

eyes were

banquet hall was thick with