When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 1

After the Love Has Gone

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I prepared plenty of dishes on Christmas day, waiting for Helena Hawthorne to come home for dinner.

However, she never noticed any of them as she continued packing her things into a suitcase. She then said coldly, “I won’t be spending Christmas with you this year.”

I didn’t say a thing as I started eating in silence.

Right at the stroke of midnight, Helena’s! ove posted a photo on his Instagram feed. Helena was leaning against his shoulder in an intimate manner in the photo as fireworks lit up the sky behind them.

The caption read, “She said that as long as I wanted it, she’d leave everything behind to be with me.”

I didn’t get hysterical or question her anymore this time. Instead, I just double–tapped on the post to like it.

A second later, Helena called me, sounding like she was anxious and panicking. “Don’t get mad. I’ll definitely spend the next Christmas with you…”

I laughed self–deprecatingly and said, “It’s a pity that we won’t have till next year anymore.”

By the time Helena came home, it was already the next day.

anxiously for her at the main

then got a text message

lunch. I just replied to her simply, “Come

she huffed and puffed. Then, she stared at my back and said, “I haven’t had lunch

been in the past, I would have immediately made her some food, but this time, I just said, “I

she said, “I know that you’re still mad at me for

dishes and dried my hands next.

t

me. “Jaxon is all alone in this city, so I need to be with him,

not.”

answered faintly,

said in a tired voice, “You’re making me exhausted like this. Can you just stop it with your

a temper tantrum. You

a model airplane from her suitcase and handed It to me. She looked down at me

creases in the original packaging. It

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on his

it

eyes. She asked me angrily, “Is that

answered simply,

was white with anger. She held her hands out toward me and demanded,