When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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As soon as he finished, Lionel and Mindy hurried out the door. Miranda was left stunned.

Oh well, as long as they were happy…

Back at the lab, Paul was reviewing the two data sets from last week and noticed a discrepancy in the fourth column of the second set. Just as he was about to call Bryan over, his phone rang.

He answered it casually, “Hello?”

“Dr. Jefferson, it’s Miranda.”

Paul paused for a moment. His gaze slowly drifted from the screen, and his tone softened without him realizing it. “What’s up? Something you need?”

“My dad mentioned wanting to invite you over for dinner. He’s going to cook… If you’re too busy, that’s fine. I’ll just tell him-”

“I’m free.”

Miranda paused for a few seconds. “…Aren’t you busy with the lab?”

“It’s manageable.”

“Well then…”

tonight. And thank your dad for me,

problem.” After hanging up, Miranda was left in a

her, complaining about how the team was swamped. Everyone was working overtime to meet deadlines. So

had finished his call and nudged him playfully. “Who was that? Miranda,

shot him a cool glance. “You knew

Bryan are exhausted too, and here you are, Dr. Jefferson, casually saying it’s ‘manageable.‘

somehow, when it came from

fake experiments, writing fake reports, and working on fake

aside, putting some distance between them, and pointed at his watch. “If I’m not mistaken, it’s been over nine hours since I gave you the

deviations been corrected? When do you plan to

barrage

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for disturbing you. I’ll take my

staring at the unprocessed data on his computer. Moments like these made him really miss

chaotic data would magically fall into place

luxury but hard to return to simplicity!

Paul arrived at Miranda’s home with a bottle of red

of the kitchen, holding a spatula and grinning from