Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 722

“So you’re saying, your relationship with Kearney was all a ruse, and you were merely posing as his date tonight?”

Agnes hadn’t expected to confess so openly, but Jared seized on her admission immediately.

He’d initially assumed Agnes and Kearney were a couple.

Now, with Agnes herself declaring their engagement was a sham, was their entire relationship a farce too?

At this point, Agnes felt there was no point in hiding the truth so she told him, “I’m simply good friends with Kearney, like siblings, and there’s no romantic involvement. Besides, he already has someone he’s interested in, Agnes said.

A weight lifted off Jared’s chest. In reality, he knew. The way Kearney looked at Agnes was different from an ordinary man. A man wouldn’t look at a woman he loves in such a platonic way

suspicions, seeing Agnes standing next to Kearney was something Jared found unbearable. Hearing

Ryder? You claimed to be engaged to

was taken aback,

it was the enchanting moonlight tonight, or perhaps his intense sorrow had affected her, Agnes decided to admit. “Yes, that was false too. My relationship with Ryder was purely professional, as a doctor and a patient’s family member. When I ran into him in Manhattan, it was a coincidence. I harbored resentment towards you because of Alyssa, and there was no way I could let go of that grudge and be with him. Over the

and despite Ryder claiming to be engaged to Agnes, and hinting at cohabitation in Manhattan, Jared held onto

truly obtained something, he would be quiet about it, just

announcements in public, merely to provoke him, to deepen his misunderstanding

understood his manipulations, because his tactics were identical to

it impossible to be

time he tried to have a serious conversation with Agnes, she was

like he was on

been too busy to date these past years. Could it mean that