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.

see a movie in town

head suddenly. He couldn’t believe she was inviting him to a movie. His heart raced,

didn’t respond, she asked again, “You

He nodded eagerly. “Yes”

comedy that just came out yesterday, and it’s getting great

Sebastian blinked in surprise.

Madison wasn’t just inviting

have work to finish up.

Miranda to join them but wasn’t disappointed.

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Chapter 0998

“Okay. Anything you want to eat? I can

won’t be long You’d be wasting

yourself too

it,” Miranda replied.

stayed for another half hour to wrap up her work. She changed out of her lab

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

about half an hour to finish shopping and check out. As she reached the apartment building, she

those,” he said and casually took the shopping bags from her hands. “Just coming back from

nodded, not bothering with