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 at The Journalism Society

was a small-time actress int

and settling down

a name for

shooting “Nebula Dnes overheard the director, Hamish,

time, Agnes didn’t think much of

graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same class as her mom

an interview, Agnes

Alicia, who’s now a bigwig behind the

asked her about

Julia, and Alyssa Whitfield used to be

though Alicia ended up

some insight into Julia and Alyssa’s relationship.

knew a bit about their falling out and

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

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 about Alyssa

relaying

didn’t remember everything clearly after all these years.

always saying she took the fall for

Alyssa had set her up,