Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 1

Agnes Pritchard was just five minutes late, but she was summoned to the boss’s office for a one–hour lecture.

When she emerged from the CEO’s office, Agnes looked like a ghost. Her face and eyes red and swollen. Clearly, she had been crying.

Everyone in the secretarial office felt bad for her.

Agnes was a new intern assigned to the secretarial office. Her job typically involved writing drafts and sorting out files.

For some reason, the CEO always seemed to have a bone to pick with her. He could always find a reason to summon her to his office for a dressing–down. And every time Agnes came out of the office, she looked like she had seen a ghost.

Agnes finally managed to slump back into her chair.

Anita, another intern, rolled her chair over and voiced her indignation, “The CEO is so mean to you just because you look like an easy target.”

does when he returns from a business trip is chew you out?” Agnes hadn’t quite pulled herself together yet, her mind still reeling

his energy seemed to have doubled. She might have been stuck in there for

and felt terrible, but there was nothing

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on the shoulder, “Agnes, take it easy.

management at Lakeside College; she

a bit dazed.

much about it. We’ll figure something out for you at the department dinner tonight.”

“Department dinner? Do I have to

privileges. But that’s not the point. The point is a lot of the senior staff from the secretarial office will be there, we interns can’t just

was also an intern. She went to the same college as Agnes but in different departments. Rumor

the whole afternoon fretting. Because earlier today in the office, her boss had told her to go straight home after work. After an afternoon of contemplation, she decided to go to the dinner.

home, she worried she wouldn’t be able to hold it together. She never understood why the cold, handsome man, in everyone else’s eyes, could turn

her ear, Agnes was already exhausted, barely conscious. She might as well have pretended she