When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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From Yasmine’s vantage point, she could clearly see the color drain from Sophie’s face. Her expression shifted rapidly from smug confidence to panic, disbelief, and confusion.

“This… this can’t be. How could this happen in just one day?”

Yasmine replied flatly, “Public opinion changes in the blink of an eye. You came back yesterday, went straight to bed, and who knows what could’ve happened in the meantime?

“That damned Joli!” Sophie exploded. “It wasn’t enough for him to stir up trouble on the campus forum; now he’s taken it public?”

“Why wouldn’t he?” Yasmine retorted. “You threatened to ruin his chances of graduating -what’s the worst that could happen to him now?

“He has nothing left to lose. If anything, he’s gambling for a way out. That’s better than waiting in silence for doom.”

Sophie struck Yasmine hard across the face. “Whose side are you on? If I go down, you think you’ll be spared?”

turned her face back,

you staring at?” Sophie demanded,

tone was cold and detached. “I’m looking at you, Aunt Sophie. Watching you unravel, panicked like a startled bird. Watching you trapped in the web of your own making, falling from your pedestal. Watching as your arrogance seals your

hand again, but this time Yasmine caught it midair. With a sharp shove, she pushed

let you hit me again! I’m a person,

it completely! Yasmine Xander,

You’re not untouchable, Aunt Sophie. Even if you think you are, your

this can ruin me? I’m a tenured professor at Bedford College!

Do you think one student’s baseless accusations can convict me? If I fall, the college’s reputation will collapse

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think the administration is still backing you?” Tasmine lesped betydn You always called me foolish, but now I see you’re the biggest

“No… no, they wouldn’t dare.

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before thrustig wonendos face, Bedford