When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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Two days later, Evelyn indeed received a call from Lucy. However, it wasn’t to ask for money.

“…What did you just say?”

Lucy replied, “Take me and my son to that hotel where you and the other wealthy ladies had your gathering last time for afternoon tea. What’s the problem?”

Evelyn resisted the urge to smash her phone. She clenched her teeth as she responded, stressing each word, “That hotel is members–only!”

“So?”

“Non–members can’t enter!”

“Then just get me a membership, won’t you?”

Evelyn felt like her teeth were about to crack from grinding it so hard.

Get her a membership? As if it were that simple!

One needed to accumulate personal spending of over two million to become a lifetime member. And Lucy? Who did she think she was?

“I don’t care. I want to have afternoon tea there today, so you better figure it out!”

In the end, Evelyn used her membership status to bring Lucy and Franklin into the hotel.

a group of familiar ladies having a gathering there. With Lucy and Franklin in tow,

It’s really

didn’t respond. We thought we’d mistaken

inwardly, she felt so embarrassed she wanted to dig a hole and

calling me? Sorry,

of the ladies asked, her gaze falling on Lucy and Franklin. “They look a

hanging over Evelyn’s head finally

here last time too. I got a bit loud and had a bit of

other ladies‘ seemed

eyes full of surprise, suspicion, and a certain kind of subtle

settle things? Made peace?” One of

peace ages

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well, demure, even. Yet little did she know, Evelyn just wanted

The question itself was a trap! By answering it, she was admitting there was a dispute

what kind of dispute? It wouldn’t take long for people to connect the dots back to Hansel, making them believe

circulating their social circle had been just that–gossip. If Evelyn had stayed silent, it would’ve

now, this idiot Lucy had blurted out everything, confirming it

who didn’t particularly get