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.

because she bumped into Alicia while

small-time

settling

a name for herself, and ended up marrying a

shooting “Nebula Dnes overheard the director, Hamish, mention

didn’t think much of

that Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same class

an interview, Agnes (

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

asked her about the

Whitfield used to

Even though Alicia ended up in Manhattan, it didn’t put a

some insight into Julia and Alyssa’s relationship.

falling out and the charity fraud

said Agnes’ mother once came to her drunk 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

was just relaying

admission, she didn’t remember

Agnes was confused. Why was her mom always saying she took the

Alyssa had set her up, what did this have