Heartstrings on Fire

Chapter 487

“I understand you are busy, but remember, we work for a better life. Right now, you’re a total slave to your academic research. Trying to get a hangout with you is harder than meeting the president of the USA, Jared spoke in a fatherly tone.

“Uncle, I hear you. But these years, you’ve been busier than me. Mom told me that you’ve moved your residence to your office, often forgetting to eat or sleep, pulling all–nighters. As a doctor, it’s my duty to tell you that if you keep this up, your health is gonna take a hit sooner or later,” Ryder responded in a typical doctor’s tone

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Jared just chuckled, “Ha, now you’re lecturing me, huh?”

“I just care about you.”

“Alright, I get it. I’ll explain things to your mom. You can’t make it back for the holidays again.”

“Thanks, Uncle.”

As he was leaving, Ryder asked, “Uncle, how long do you plan on staying here?”

According to Jared’s plan, he was only going to stay in Manhattan for three days.

But now…he had a change of heart.

Jared said, “This time, I plan on vacationing here for a while. I’ll be staying at Wavesong Villa, you can drop by anytime.”

Ryder didn’t say anything

After leaving the hospital, Jared returned to the villa.

he bought here several

the river, it boasted stunning

this house was to sometimes bring ‘Agnes

to his surprise, she never

returning to the house, Jared

coat on the couch and plopped down, exhausted,

was the profile he saw in the

fact, Jared was not certain at

stunned at the

person

had been four years. She had disappeared for four

that night four years

after Agnes left Maplewood Manor, he

to the Pritchard family’s villa.

hours, Agnes still

out in the early morning.

bunch of cops and an ambulance.

accident not far from the Pritchard

a huge banyan tree by the roadside and was almost totally

recognized it

was the Pritchard family’s

like

covered in blood, being lifted from the