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.

investigation again was because she bumped into

was a small-time actress

and settling down here.

ago, never really made a name for herself,

overheard the director, Hamish, mention Alicia

Agnes didn’t

that Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same

interview, Agnes

Alicia, who’s now

her about the old times.

Alyssa Whitfield

a very good relationship. Even though Alicia ended up in Manhattan, it

had some insight into Julia

about their falling out and the charity fraud case involving Agnes’s mom.

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

Julia kept mentioning Preston, and occasionally the name

relaying the facts.

her own admission, she didn’t remember everything clearly after all these

her mom always saying she

that Alyssa had set her up, what did this have to do with