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.

suggested, “How about we see

was inviting him to a movie. His heart raced, beating faster with each passing

didn’t respond, she asked again, “You

He nodded eagerly. “Yes”

that just came out

Sebastian blinked in surprise.

wasn’t

pass. I still have work to finish up. You

them but wasn’t disappointed. She still

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Chapter 0998

eat? I

won’t be

push yourself too hard,”

Miranda replied.

for another half hour to wrap up her work. She changed out of her lab coat, locked the

to the first–floor supermarket. She needed to restock some essentials

half an hour to finish shopping and check out. As she reached the apartment building, she ran into Paul, who was coming back from

casually took the shopping

nodded, not bothering