When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0898

Madison sighed. “You don’t get it.”

Sebastian gave her a puzzled look.

“I’m so stressed out,” Madison wailed.

“What can I do to help?” When he saw the tears in her eyes, Sebastian panicked.

“I’m not getting enough sleep… Can I cut the morning run by ten minutes?” she sobbed.

“Sure,” he said.

Madison paused and was surprised by how easily he agreed. She even wondered if she should have asked for more.

Sebastian seemed to read her mind. “No more than ten.”

She didn’t say anything but accepted it nonetheless. Her tears weren’t fake, and she was really on the edge. The pressure was overwhelming, and the exhaustion was taking its toll. But she quickly gathered herself.

“Okay, back to work!”

Madison wrapped up her tasks for the day, stretching with a long yawn, and breathed a sigh of relief. She finished half an hour early, which made her feel pretty proud. “Seb, are you done?”

“Almost,” he replied.

about we see

couldn’t believe she was inviting him to a

respond, she asked again,

He nodded eagerly. “Yes”

then turned to Miranda. “There’s a comedy that just came out yesterday, and it’s getting

Sebastian blinked in surprise.

wasn’t

“I’ll pass. I still have work to finish up.

expected Miranda to join them

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smile. “Okay. Anything you want to eat? I can

I won’t be long

yourself too hard,”

it,” Miranda

half hour to wrap up her work. She changed out of her lab coat, locked the door behind her, and left the lab. She drove today, and the trip was

and took the elevator from the garage to the first–floor supermarket. She needed to restock some essentials and grabbed some groceries to make a quick dinner at

reached the apartment building, she

the shopping

not bothering with