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

was something Jared found unbearable. Hearing the truth straight from Agnes, Jared felt a

a step forward, pressing on, “And what about Ryder? You claimed to be engaged to him in

aback, finding Jared relentless

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 years, I’ve expended all my energy on life and treating my son. I

claiming to be engaged to Agnes, and hinting at cohabitation in

truly obtained something, he would be quiet about it, just like how he had kept track of Agnes’s whereabouts over

those announcements in public, merely to

his tactics were identical to

it impossible

tried to have a serious conversation with Agnes, she was always so dismissive. But now, hearing Agnes’s admission, Jared was so

felt like he

it mean that her