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.

at the main gate of the building, but this time,

got a text message from her. “Where are

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

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

have immediately made her some food, but this time, I just said, “I don’t have

still mad at

finished washing the dishes and dried my hands next.

t

in this city, so I need to be with him,

not.”

faintly, “Sure. I

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

“I’m not throwing a temper

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

airplane wasn’t wrapped up in gift paper. In fact, there were even some creases in the original packaging. It was a drastically different situation from the intricately wrapped

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off on his

any expression of delight on my face as I took it

Helena’s eyes. She

simply, “That’s

was white with anger. She held her hands