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

Agnes had absolutely zero appetite.

they had a meal, they went to the police

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

had no windows, and the walls were plastered

planned the proposal for a long time, and was

a radical and had served time for a criminal case before.

when he fell from the roof today

and Agnes left the police station, it was

sat in the car in

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

bit out of it. She wasn’t really overthinking anything at the moment. She wasn’t even sure

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

let out what was on her

been avoiding and hiding, but