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

absolutely zero

meal, they went to the police station to give

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

walls were plastered with posters

for a long time, and was even prepared to

a radical and had

he fell

the time Jared and Agnes left the

in the car in silence

I said up on the roof, I only said

bit out of it. She wasn’t really overthinking anything at

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 your past feelings. I’ve been through a relationship with Elton Taylor, so I know letting go isn’t easy. I’m always scared, scared that I’m just a fling to you; scared that in the end, you might think the woman you loved for so many years is the one for you.”

finally let out what was on her mind.

hiding, but Jared’s words