When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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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 gate of the building,

got a text message

middle of having my lunch. I just replied to her simply, “Come back

while later, I was washing the dishes in the kitchen when Helena came in with her suitcase. She sounded tired as she huffed and puffed. Then, she stared at my back and said, “I haven’t had lunch yet. Can you cook

but this time, I just said, “I don’t have the time. You can

still mad at me for last night, but can

and dried my hands next.

t

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

not.”

faintly, “Sure.

me. She then said in a tired voice, “You’re making me exhausted like this. Can you just

looked back at her. “I’m not throwing a temper tantrum. You don’t need to explain things to

at me for a whole minute. Then, she retrieved a model airplane from her suitcase and handed It to me. She looked down at me

paper. In fact, there were even some creases in the original packaging. It was a drastically different situation from the intricately wrapped gift

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off on

it from her and said politely, “Thank you.” I didn’t

dissatisfaction appeared in Helena’s eyes. She asked me angrily, “Is that

simply, “That’s

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