Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 60

Life in the following days was pretty chill, and before she knew it, it was already June.

Jared was still often away on business, and Agnes found hersell growing increasingly dependent on him.

On the first day of every business trip Jared took, Agnes would start looking forward to when he would get back.

But this time. Jared’s trip was unusually long–a whole week with no confirmed date of return.

Kerri noticed Agnes moping around the house, endlessly staring at her phone, like she was deep in the throes of missing someone.

Agnes had to admit that she really missed Jared, waiting for his messages and his calls.

Even if his messages were just a word or two, Agnes would look at her phone, her heart brimming with happiness.

Kern began to wonder if Agnes was falling in love.

Agnes didn’t deny it.

weekend, and Agnes hadn’t received any messages from Jared all

three o’clock in the afternoon, Agnes had left the library and planned to go home to sleep. On her bike ride home, because her mind wasn’t there,

was startled because her bike had left an obvious scratch on the rear

look at the license plate, and it was a Maybach. Her heart

young lady? How can you ride a

apologized, saying, “I’m sorry, it was my

and saw the scratch on his car and said, “Can you afford to pay for this damage? Do you know what kind of car it is? Can you,

the standard procedures, get

have any idea how much this car costs?”

A deep voice came from the back seat

back seat. He was wearing sunglasses, and his face was unclear, but his side

immediately and

came over and said, “We don’t have time for

she might have thought he was trying to rip her off, but Agnes knew that settling for twenty thousand was actually letting her off

a student. Give me a month, and I will pay off this debt.”

to ask the man in the back seat again.

handed Agnes a business card and said, “This is my boss’s card. It has his contact information. When you have the money