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.”

to piss off the CEO? Why’s he got it in for you? The first thing he does when he returns from a business trip is chew you out?” Agnes hadn’t quite pulled herself together

away on a business trip for two days, but his energy seemed to have doubled. She might have been stuck in there for another hour if she hadn’t been crying and begging

but there was

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it easy. The internship is almost over. Just

College; she was just here for a month–long winter

a

much about it. We’ll

snapped Agnes back to reality, “Department dinner? Do I have to go?”

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 blow it off.”

college as Agnes but in different departments. Rumor

her boss had told her to go straight home after work. After

to hold it together. She never understood why the cold, handsome man, in everyone

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