Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 487

“I understand you are busy, but remember, we work for a better life. Right now, you’re a total slave to your academic research. Trying to get a hangout with you is harder than meeting the president of the USA, Jared spoke in a fatherly tone.

“Uncle, I hear you. But these years, you’ve been busier than me. Mom told me that you’ve moved your residence to your office, often forgetting to eat or sleep, pulling all–nighters. As a doctor, it’s my duty to tell you that if you keep this up, your health is gonna take a hit sooner or later,” Ryder responded in a typical doctor’s tone

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Jared just chuckled, “Ha, now you’re lecturing me, huh?”

“I just care about you.”

“Alright, I get it. I’ll explain things to your mom. You can’t make it back for the holidays again.”

“Thanks, Uncle.”

As he was leaving, Ryder asked, “Uncle, how long do you plan on staying here?”

According to Jared’s plan, he was only going to stay in Manhattan for three days.

But now…he had a change of heart.

Jared said, “This time, I plan on vacationing here for a while. I’ll be staying at Wavesong Villa, you can drop by anytime.”

Ryder didn’t say anything

After leaving the hospital, Jared returned to the villa.

a house he bought here

by the river, it boasted

idea when buying this house was to sometimes

to his surprise, she never came.

the house, Jared felt

coat on the couch and plopped down,

was the profile he saw in the car at

Jared was not

was just stunned at

that person really

She

scene from that night four years

left Maplewood Manor, he drove off to

went to the

waiting for two hours, Agnes still hadn’t

in the early

a bunch of cops and an

not far from the Pritchard family’s

car had crashed into a huge banyan tree by the roadside and

recognized it at a

the Pritchard

ran over like a

face covered in blood, being

thought

it was pushed into an abyss,