Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 334

Agnes was feeling super awkward.

Ryder showed up and she hadn’t noticed him at all.

Getting up, Agnes resettled herself on the swing. “What brings you here?”

“Just took Oscar out for a walk and we just got back. Oscar likes to play in the backyard after a walk. By the way, you’re sitting on Oscar’s swing now,” Ryder said. Agnes quickly got up, and Ryder’s smirk became even more pronounced.

Only then did Agnes realize that Ryder was just joking.

Golden retrievers don’t swing, so Agnes shot Ryder a glare.

Ryder came over, sat down on the stone bench under the locust tree, and while grooming Oscar, he asked, “Why are you sitting here all mopey? Where’s Jared?” “He’s chatting with your mom. I just came out for some fresh air.”

Then came a long stretch of silence

the past, when Agnes and Ryder were together, she would always yak on and

rehearsing and performing in plays together.

her, Agnes felt like she

speak and Ryder was silent, which made her feel even more embarrassed. Just as Agnes was about

moving out of the Whitfield Manor? To

now, so I rented an apartment at the

me that your dream is to become an excellent neurosurgeon. Congratulations.

need clinical experience and practice. But

encouraged him, “Keep going,

me you wanted to be a

dimmed

reporter, to expose the dark side of society, to help those on the edge of despair, to fight against the world’s injustices using

was stuck in

still had nothing to

gave a wry smile, “If there’s a chance in the

“What dream?”

from not