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.”

The first thing he does when he returns from

She might have been stuck in there for another hour if she hadn’t been

but

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Agnes on the shoulder, “Agnes, take it easy.

at Lakeside College; she was just here for

nodded, looking a bit dazed.

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

to reality, “Department dinner? Do I have

course, you do. It’s Yolanda’s treat. Rumor has it she’s got some special 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 blow

departments. Rumor had it she had connections and was assigned to the

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

went 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 so brutal

was already exhausted, barely conscious. She might as well have pretended she didn’t