Heartstrings on Fire

Chapter 506

Agnes has always been a clock-in, clock-out type of gal

Lately, she’s been up to her eyeballs in work stress.

Her company’s just gone and set up a new Journalism Society in Willowbrook Town, called “NEWS”, and they’ve got their sights set on her as president. Agnes has been batting away this idea for months

But today, she got hauled into the boss’s office yet again.

Agnes didn’t want to go back to Willowbrook Town right now. First off, her son Nocturne was sick and needed regular treatments.

Secondly, she just didn’t feel it’s the right time.

She knew that someday she would have to go back.

There were some loose ends and responsibilities that she needed to tie up.

Over the years, Agnes had been working at the biggest news corporation in Manhattan, partly for personal reasons.

For the past four years, she’d been digging into her mom’s old graft and charity fraud case.

Looking back, there were a lot of things that still didn’t add up.

because she bumped into Alicia

was a small-time actress

and settling

twenty years ago, never really made a name for herself,

“Nebula Dnes overheard the director, Hamish,

that time, Agnes didn’t think much of it.

Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same class as her mom Julia.

an interview, Agnes

who’s now a bigwig

her about the old

Whitfield used to

relationship. Even though Alicia ended up

insight into Julia and

out and the charity fraud case involving

talked about the incident. Julia said she was cornered, that it was

time, Alicia never understood what Julia meant by these words. But Julia kept mentioning Preston, and occasionally the name Laura came up. But there wasn’t a peep

just relaying the facts.

own admission, she didn’t remember everything clearly

mom always saying she took the

Alyssa had set her up,