Heartstrings on Fire

Agnes was tight-lipped, seemingly waiting for the words to follow.

However, Jared stayed silent for a long while without uttering a word

Finally, Agnes couldn’t bear it anymore “Spit it out, will you?”

Jared seemed to heave a sigh: “Agnes, can we stop bickering?”

“Bickening? Jared, you think I’m the one bickering? You’re the one accusing me for no reason, you’re the one misunderstanding my relationship with Ryder, and now you’re saying that I’m the one bickering. Jared, do you really think I’m a pushover? I won’t let this slide. I’ve said it before, this isn’t going to be over so easily!” “Ryder likes you!”

Agnes had just delivered a mouthful of angry words.

When Jared bluntly cut her off with a single sentence, Agnes thought she must have heard him wrong.

“What did you say?”

Jared stated clearly: “I said Ryder likes you, as a man likes a woman.”

Agnes found it unbelievable.

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But after a moment of shock, her anger flared up even more. “Not only are you blaming me, now you’re blaming Ryder too? Jared, I’m so disappointed in you. If you’ve come here just to lay more blame on me, then please leave. I don’t want to hear it.”

You don’t understand a damn thing” “Even if I don’t

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now he suddenly says Ryder likes her Agnes replied coldly: “Are you happy only when you think you’ve been betrayed?”

to

oppose me? Your thoughts are to continue flirting with

forward, grabbing Agnes’s hand, pinning her against the

wrist tightly: “Till say it again, Ryder likes you. I don’t care what you think, but from today on, you’re not allowed to flirt with him. You don’t need to

this way. Agnes had not seen Ryder

big, but she

when she did, Agnes

felt a bit uncomfortable.

she had never actively flirted with Ryder. She hadn’t in the past and she wouldn’t