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.

Agnes, “Let’s go grab a bite”

Agnes had absolutely zero appetite.

to the police station to

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

and the walls were plastered with

proposal for a long time, and was even prepared to die with her if she rejected him.

guy was a radical and had served time

when he fell from the roof

left the police station, it

sat in the car

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

of it. She wasn’t really overthinking anything at the

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

what was on

avoiding and hiding, but Jared’s