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 a movie in town

and raised his head suddenly. He couldn’t believe she was inviting him to a movie. His heart raced, beating faster with

respond, she

He nodded eagerly. “Yes”

Miranda. “There’s a comedy that just came out yesterday,

Sebastian blinked in surprise.

wasn’t just

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

them but wasn’t disappointed. She

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Chapter 0998

I can grab it

done soon, and I won’t be long You’d be wasting time coming

yourself too hard,”

it,” Miranda replied.

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

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

and check out. As she reached the apartment building, she ran into Paul, who was coming back from his evening

me take those,” he said and casually took the shopping bags from her hands.

nodded, not