When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 1

After the Love Has Gone

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Chapter 1

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

text message

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

her suitcase. She sounded tired as she

in the past, I would have immediately made her some food, but this time, I just said, “I don’t have the time.

anger as she said, “I know that you’re still mad at me for last night, but can you please quit throwing a tantrum like this? I’m really hungry

finished washing the dishes and dried my hands next. “I’m not mad.”

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this city, so I need to be with

not.”

answered faintly, “Sure.

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

her. “I’m not throwing a temper tantrum. You don’t need to

from her suitcase and handed It to me. She looked down at me and said casually,

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

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on his

any expression of delight on my face as I took it from her and said politely, “Thank you.” I didn’t say

in Helena’s eyes. She asked

answered simply, “That’s

face was white with anger. She held her hands