Heartstrings On Fire

Chatper 820

Chapter 820

Back in high school, everyone thought Agnes was Ryder’s girl

During that time his buddies would always bring her up in conversation

It seemed like they were hell bent on playing matchmaker, pairing them up at every turn.

Looking back, Ryder recalls that period as sweet, yet tumultuous.

It felt like a fleeting happiness that he couldn’t quite grasp

Ryder always felt that his joy, both then and now, was borrowed stolen, even

He opened the door to his apartment not leading Agnes to the bedroom, but instead tidying up the couch to lay her down

Agnes mumbled

some water, helping her sit up to take a sip. But as she drank, she vomited, right there on the living

He knew she couldn’t handle her liquor, yet he had watched her

had missed her too much. But in her sober moments, they couldn’t be

now seeing Agnes in discomfort, he regretted it deeply

and fed it to Agnes before starting to

scrubbed the carpet in the bathroom until it was spotless and took care of the mess on the floor. By the time he finished, an hour had

sound asleep on the

as a mother to a five–year–old her face still held

the

when she handed him a bottle of water, her smile

memories over and over through the

only he had been braver back then

not be as they were now.

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