When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0737

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Nelly followed the address from the documents and found Mindy’s current residence. Standing outside the wrought iron gate, she tilted her head to take in the villa before her.

From the outside, the neighborhood seemed ordinary enough, but once inside, it was surprisingly pleasant. Even after ending up in such a small place, her sister was somehow living in a villa.

Nelly’s lips curled into a faint smirk. Her younger sister had always been lucky.

Even as children, when they visited a fortune teller, the lady clasped her hands together and declared Minnie’s destiny to be one of great fortune and prosperity. Meanwhile, Nelly would stand to the side, as invisible as a shadow.

Anywhere Minnie went, all attention seemed to gravitate toward her, leaving Nelly in the background.

As she crossed the garden, Nelly reached the front door, adjusted her expression into a polite smile, and pressed the doorbell.

Lionel answered the door. He was planning to make bread for breakfast after hearing from Mindy’s parents that they preferred plain bread with butter over heavy breakfast.

He had just finished kneading some dough when he heard the doorbell, he wiped his hands and opened the door, finding himself face–to–face with a well–dressed woman radiating an air of arrogance.

“Who are you looking for?” Lionel asked.

*Nelly took a moment to study him. He was tall enough and reasonably good–looking, but his clothes were too

plain. He seemed like he was just an average middle–aged man with no sense of style or charm.

“Are you… Lionel Sutton?” Nelly asked, testing the waters.

“Yes, that’s me. And you are?”

What? Minnie had married someone like this?

Lionel could feel the scrutinizing gaze, tinged with judgment, and it left him feeling distinctly uncomfortable. Seeing her hesitation to answer, he frowned slightly and was about to speak again when Mindy’s voice called from behind him.

“Nelly?”

the sofa while Mindy handed her a cup of warm

tea,” Mindy said with a gentle smile. “I wasn’t sure if that’s

here, Nelly had imagined countless possibilities. After more than 20 years of wandering, Nelly thought Minnie should have been worn down by life, stripped of the

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Chapter 0737

sitting across from her, the Minnie of her

almost entirely intact.

than two decades, there was no trace of hardship on her face. She still looked as innocent and charming as ever, even gazing at

Minnie didn’t remember what

lost her

at the thought. The anxiety that had been gnawing at her eased,

these years? We nearly

been doing well. You haven’t changed a bit,

you disappeared. The weather was

then…”

closely. Seeing no signs of recognition, she finally let

all these years. They thought you’d been kidnapped

that we got news about you and were able

watching over

voice trembled with emotion, and tears glistened in her eyes. Meanwhile, Mindy listened on the side

of their struggles over the decades but had glossed over the

now, through Nelly, that Mindy learned the true

couldn’t even begin

Nelly shifted the topic. She spoke of Mindy’s favorite stamps and tins

But as your older sister, I failed in my duty. I lost

as if her expression was

her disappearance; her mind was a blank slate regarding

reunited now, aren’t we? There’s no need to