Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 648

Grandma continued, “You might think I’m getting old and dumb, and yeah, my memory isn’t what it used to be. But I remember everything about you two. Times have changed, haven’t they? Now, people date for years before marrying, and divorce is as common as catching cold. I don’t understand what’s gone wrong with your generation. But let me ask you this, Jared, do you still love Agnes?”

Jared hung his head, he felt like a child. There were many things he’d kept to himself, unable to share them with anyone else. To others, his feelings might have seemed ludicrous.

But in front of Agnes‘ grandmother, he couldn’t hide

anymore.

“I’ve never stopped loving her,” Jared admitted softly.

To Jared, ‘like‘ seemed too weak a word to describe his feelings for Agnes. Love, in its most profound sense, was what he felt. If he had to describe it, he supposed the phrase ‘sweet sorrow‘ might do.

Over the years, Agnes had brought him countless heartaches. The disappointments, the emptiness, the suffocating pain… yet he accepted it all. He bore it willingly.

know I’m getting forgetful, and I’m afraid I’ll forget everything

aback. “Grandma, you…”

really think you could fool me? If I was healthy, would you have brought me to the city and hired a team of doctors to look after me? I know my own body. I’m not sick, Jared, I’m just getting old. The only thing I can’t

would be so perceptive.

been a good, obedient girl. She’ll listen to me. Besides, you two have a son together. The

only smile. “You’re right,

then, leave here to me,” grandma said. “Go outside

Agnes was digging up some

Her Grandma had scattered the seeds randomly across the fields, so they had sprouted everywhere. And with the snow covering the ground, picking them was

a hand?” Jared

was squatting in the vegetable garden, wearing rubber boots. Her hands and feet

manage,” Agnes replied, glancing