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.

she bumped into Alicia while working

small-time

and settling down

name for herself, and ended up marrying

the director, Hamish, mention Alicia

time, Agnes didn’t think much of

Agnes remembered that Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same class as

an interview, Agnes (

now

her about

Julia, and Alyssa Whitfield used to

up in Manhattan, it didn’t put a damper on

into Julia and Alyssa’s relationship.

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

talked about the incident. Julia said she was cornered, that it was a mistake made by Preston, and she took the fall for him, as a

Julia kept mentioning Preston, and occasionally the name Laura

relaying

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

mom always saying she took the fall for Preston?

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