Chapter 506


    Agnes has always been a clock-in, clock-out type of gal


    Lately, she’s been up to her eyeballs in work stress.


    Herpany’s just gone and set up a new Journalism Society in Willowbrook Town, called “NEWS”,


    and they’ve got their sights set on her as president. Agnes has been batting away this idea for months


    But today, she got hauled into the boss’s office yet again.


    Agnes didn’t want to go back to Willowbrook Town right now. First off, her son Nocturne was sick and


    needed regr treatments.


    Secondly, she just didn’t feel it’s the right time.


    She knew that someday she would have to go back.


    There were some loose ends and responsibilities that she needed to tie up.


    Over the years, Agnes had been working at the biggest news corporation in Manhattan, partly for


    personal reasons.


    For the past four years, she’d been digging into her mom’s old graft and charity fraud case.


    Looking back, there were a lot of things that still didn’t add up.


    The reason Agnes kicked off her investigation again was because she bumped into Alicia while working


    at The Journalism Society


    Alicia was a small-time actress int


    tycoon and settling down here.


    entertainment industry twenty years ago, never really made a name for herself, and ended up marrying


    a Manhattan


    While shooting “Neb Dnes overheard the director, Hamish, mention Alicia


    At that time, Agnes didn’t think much of it.


    But Agnes remembered that Alicia was a graduate of StoryMasters Academy, same ss as her mom


    Julia.


    During an interview, Agnes (


    got to chat with Alicia, who’s now a bigwig behind the scenes.


    Agnes asked her about the old times.


    Alicia, Julia, and Alyssa Whitfield used to be roommates.


    They had a very good rtionship. Even though Alicia ended up in Manhattan, it didn’t put a damper on


    their friendship.


    So, Alicia had some insight into Julia and Alyssa’s rtionship.


    She also knew a bit about their falling out and the charity fraud case involving Agnes’s mom.


    Alicia said Agnes’ mother once came to her drunk and talked about the incident. Julia said she was


    cornered, that it was a mistake made by Preston, and she took the fall for him, as a way to pay him


    back.


    At the time, Alicia never understood what Julia meant by these words. But Julia kept mentioning


    Preston, and asionally the name Laura came up. But there wasn’t a peep about Alyssa


    Alicia was just rying the facts.


    By her own admission, she didn’t remember everything clearly after all these years.


    But Agnes was confused. Why was her mom always saying she took the fall for Preston?


    If Julia knew that Alyssa had set her up, what did this have to do with Preston?


    Laura imed to be an outsider, clueless about the whole situation.


    But why did Julia mention her name when she was drunk?


    Agnes felt there was more to the story


    And then there was the graft case.


    Agnes was determined to get to the bottom of it.


    Her one and only wish now was to bring the truth to light and clear Julia’s name.


    Agnes had already dug up some leads


    Apparently, Julia had bribed government officials with over five million.


    This waster exposed, leading to the dismissal and imprisonment of those officials.


    Because this incident involved all kinds of major corruption cases. Both men ended up getting


    sentenced to over a decade in prison.


    One of them offed himself before he could be locked up


    The other one had already served over a decade in the Capital’s high-security Lockdown Penitentiary


    But, ording to what Nate learned by hacking into the system, the guy had been so well behaved


    over the years that he had his sentence reduced by three years and was recently released from


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