When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0129

Miranda took a huge bite of the strawberry. Her eyes immediately lit up in a bright smile. “It’s delicious!”

Mindy looked at the smile on Miranda’s face and was suddenly reminded of the state she’d come home in earlier. She felt her heart stirring and gently took Miranda’s hand in the warmth of her palms. Then, she took a proper look at Miranda, from her hair to her face.

“You’ve gotten thinner,”

Miranda’s mouth was stuffed full with strawberries, and her cheeks were bulging with them. She widened her eyes and shook her head, saying, “No way! I just weighed myself, and I’ve put on two pounds since last week!

“I just look like I lost weight. Look, my hands are still chubby and meaty.” Miranda then put on a frustrated look and said, “I think I need

soon…”

no on a diet

Before she could say more, however, Lionel frowned and interrupted her. “Why is it that you young women always think about going on a diet? What fat is there to lose anymore on your scrawny body? If you lose even more weight afterward, you’re going to be nothing but a pile of bones!”

Lionel thought that youngsters nowadays were too easily influenced by trends they saw online, including dieting trends. It was bad enough that some of them were starving themselves, but even more of them were also taking dieting pills. He had a headache just looking at them.

Miranda’s eyes were bright and shiny, though. She slumped against her mother’s frame and said, “I was just joking…”

Mindy tapped her on the forehead. “This isn’t a joking matter, okay? You had better watch out if you lose even more weight the next time you come home again.”

grinned and said, “Alright,

her daughter’s hair. She then asked the

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time ever. “Have you been doing well on your own for the

glossed over. She then said as lightheartedly as possible, “I’m

guy, what’s his name again? Why didn’t he come back with you

there was no evading this question after

eyes drooped as she said faintly,

discharged from the hospital, he and Mindy had come to Elgerson City to visit Miranda. However, Miranda’s stubbornness

her parents had stopped contacting her. They never even paid her a visit in the next six years to

that Lionel was going to get mad at her once more. However, there was or.., a sense of calmness and forgiveness that reflected in

were both never meant to

a lump in her

an eye, it was soon Christmas

dressed in her pajamas

that Miranda was still

Mindy chided her while pushing her back into her room.” Look at the time! Hurry, go wash up

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