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

their love

Jenny answering.

that Elton’s

ww

the start of the feast, and the big screen behind the

I need you to forge a six–week pregnancy result for me. I’ll give you half a million, but you must

we’re doctors. We can’t do that.”

that result, I can 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; this could be the

you marry into a rich family based on a lie? If it gets out, wouldn’t it implicate me and the hospital?”

confidence, would I come to you? Isn’t

into pin–drop silence. The host was

was frozen. Because the voice in

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

eyes were on her.

was thick