When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0278

After leaving the bar, Hansel returned to the mansion. Meanwhile, Ingrid was sitting on the sofa in the living room.

As soon as she heard the door open, she rushed to greet him. Hansel treated her like she was invisible, walking straight past her and heading upstairs. Ingrid simply bit her lip in frustration.

In the master bedroom, Hansel lay on the large bed. This was the bed he once shared with Miranda, and memories of their intimate moments played vividly in his mind.

His breathing grew heavy, and a hint of longing clouded his eyes. “He cursed under his breath and went straight to the bathroom to take a cold shower.

He had only drunk two glasses that night, so his mind was clear, but Sam’s words echoed persistently in his ears:

“If you love her, why did you break up?”

“You just spent six years losing her…”

“You keep saying you love her, but everything you did was to trample on her…

“No matter how much love there was… leaving was only a matter of time…”

Each sentence felt like a nail driving into Hansel’s chest.

morning, Hansel got up early. He put on his suit and prepared to head to the office. As he reached

when he turned, he saw Ingrid emerging from the kitchen with a smile. She was holding

today and fried up some bacon. Eat

replied with an expressionless

walked up to him. “Then… how about some coffee? I know you don’t like it sweet,

and her demeanor seemed compliant. It was as if the

breakfast on the table, then looked at her face, a smirk suddenly appearing on his face. That smirk carried a mix

that moment that people are truly different, and comparisons

she was usually the one to back down. Yet her face never bore the kind of obsequious or

just take the initiative to ask him something mundane,

“Are you hungry?”

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your stomach feeling

we out of soy

understood that they had broken the ice and the

would never apologize or try to appease him. Instead, she would calmly reason

Ingrid’s face and into her seemingly clear yet deeply

Pathetic and lowly.