When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0210

Chapter 0210

Miranda was startled awake by the sound of knocking She sat up abruptly, realizing that someone was knocking on her door.

“Who is it?” she asked cautiously through the door.

Paul was working late at the lab that night, so if it was really an intruder, she had no one around to rely on.

The knocking paused for a moment, but whoever was outside didn’t respond. When Miranda didn’t open the door, the knocking resumed.

“If you don’t tell me who you are, I won’t open the door.

“Mimi,” Hansel said with a bitter smile. She was still as stubborn as ever.

“What do you want?” Miranda’s eyebrows furrowed the moment she heard his voice.

“Let me in. We need to talk. I promise I won’t do anything to you. If you’re not comfortable, you can leave the door partially op=”

“There’s nothing for us to talk about,” Miranda cut him off, clearly not intending to open the door.

No matter how much he knocked or pleaded afterward, she acted as if she couldn’t hear him. Even so, Hansel seemed unusually patient that night, when she didn’t open, he just kept knocking.

still hear the knocking. Frustrated, she picked up her phone.

in the end, Hansel was half–coaxed and half–dragged

Finally, there was peace.

down on her

she prepared breakfast, packed her clothes, and headed to the lab. She planned to

also because she needed to speed up her work. She had to finish her paper before her graduate program started in

practical solution to

out of her building, the person she was trying to avoid suddenly emerged from a nearby alley and

Miranda froze.

Hansel asked. His face was

at the police station, the once dashing man now had a light stubble, making him look

conflicting emotions as they gazed at Miranda. It was

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Chapter 0210

me lectured all night. Are you satisfied now?” His words sounded accusatory, but his tone was so soft that it

eyes betraying no emotion. “First,

causing a disturbance in the middle of the

didn’t you open the

replied, “I never open the door for

a nerve in Hansel. “What do you mean by strangers? Are you

about the lives we shared the