Heartstrings on Fire

Chapter 264

A crowd of reporters swarmed outside the hospital.

Agnes knew the whole thing was going to be splashed across tomorrow’s front pages,

Half an hour later, Ivan showed up.

He was all dusted up and had a worried look on his face. “How’s Mamie? Is she okay?” he asked.

Agnes had never seen Ivan so freaked out like this.

He took a plane early this morning for a meeting out of town. It was just past noon now. He must have heard about Mamie as soon as he landed and rushed back immediately.

“She’s fine,” Jared said, “just a bit shaken up.”

Ivan rushed into the ward.

“Let’s go grab a bite”

absolutely zero appetite.

a meal, they went to the police station to give statements.

identified the perpetrator. He was a schizophrenic with severe delusions. He watched Mamie’s movies everyday and gradually came to believe that she

windows, and the walls were plastered with posters and photos of Mamie.

and was even prepared to die with her if she

The guy was a radical and had served time for a criminal case

when he fell from the roof

the time Jared and Agnes left the police station,

in the car in silence

suddenly grabbed her hand, “Those things I said up on the roof, I only said them beccause I

at the moment. She wasn’t even

been reflecting these past two weeks, Agnes said, ‘I think I didn’t trust you enough, Jared. You were just trying to help me, but I selfishly thought it was all about Mamie. I knew deep down that you trusted me, but I was still mad. I kept asking myself why I was so mad and now I understand: it’s because I wasn’t part of your past. Your past with Mamie is like a mysterious box to me, I can’t see anything inside it. I’ve been trying to understand you, to understand

finally let out what was

were feelings she’d been avoiding and hiding, but Jared’s words today had opened her