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 Alicia

a small-time actress int

and settling

ago, never really made a name for herself, and ended up marrying

the director, Hamish, mention Alicia

that time, Agnes didn’t think much of it.

Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same class as

an interview,

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

about the old times.

Julia, and Alyssa Whitfield used to be roommates.

had a very good relationship. Even though Alicia ended up in Manhattan, it didn’t put a damper on

into Julia and

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

cornered, that it was a mistake made

understood what Julia meant by these words. But Julia kept mentioning Preston, and occasionally the name Laura came up. But there wasn’t a

relaying the facts.

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

her mom always saying she took the fall for

Alyssa had set her up,