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.

help you. You’ve been such a good boy to me all these years, and I remember every kindness. I know I’m getting forgetful, and I’m afraid I’ll forget everything one day. But before that day comes, I want to

taken aback. “Grandma,

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

grandma would

me. Besides, you two have a son together. The two people who mean the most to her in the world are on your side. What do

could only smile. “You’re

grandma said. “Go

the kitchen. Outside, Agnes was digging

were a kind of wild vegetable, not cultivated in a specific place. Her Grandma had scattered the seeds randomly across the fields,

hand?” Jared asked,

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

can manage,” Agnes replied, glancing