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.

again was because she bumped into Alicia while working at The

small-time actress

and settling down here.

ago, never really made a name

the director,

time, Agnes didn’t think

Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same class as

an interview, Agnes

to chat with Alicia, who’s now

asked her about the old times.

Julia, and Alyssa Whitfield

ended up in Manhattan, it didn’t

into Julia

knew a bit about their falling out and the

drunk and talked about the incident. Julia said she was cornered, that it was a mistake

understood what Julia meant by these words. But Julia kept mentioning Preston, and occasionally the name

just relaying the facts.

remember everything clearly after all these

mom always saying she took the fall for Preston?

had set her up, what