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.”

and Elton were now on stage.

some questions about their love story,

most of the time, it was only Jenny answering. Elton

couldn’t shake the feeling that Elton’s eyes

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the start of the feast, and the big screen behind the stage started rolling photos

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

We can’t do that.”

Taylor family. Once I become their daughter–in–law, I’ll hand over five percent of the Taylor Group’s shares to

marry into a rich family based on

stage a fake miscarriage for me. If I didn’t have the confidence, would I come to

entire banquet hall fell into pin–drop silence. The

turned ashen. She was frozen. Because the voice in the recording

just interacting with the host, and now the dialogue in the recording

eyes were on

was thick with tension.