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

a small-time actress

settling

a name

overheard the director, Hamish, mention

Agnes didn’t

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

an interview, Agnes

to chat with Alicia, who’s now a bigwig behind the scenes.

about

and Alyssa Whitfield used to be

ended up in Manhattan, it didn’t put a

insight into Julia and Alyssa’s

their falling out and the charity

and 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

by these words. But Julia kept mentioning Preston,

relaying

her own admission, she didn’t remember

Why was her mom always saying she took the

up, what did this have