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.

was because she bumped into Alicia while working at The Journalism

was a small-time actress

settling down here.

really made a name for herself, and ended up marrying a Manhattan

shooting “Nebula Dnes overheard the director, Hamish, mention Alicia

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

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

interview, Agnes

with Alicia, who’s now

asked her about the old

Alyssa Whitfield used

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

into Julia

a bit about their falling out and the

once came to her drunk 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 a way to

what Julia meant by these words. But Julia kept mentioning Preston, and occasionally the name Laura came up. But there

relaying

own admission, she didn’t remember everything

was her mom always saying she

set her up, what did this