When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 1006

The next day, Miranda arrived at the lab to find Sebastian and Madison already there.

“Miranda!” the two of them excitedly called out to her

“How’s Mr. Hill doing? Is everything sorted out now?” she asked.

Madison nodded. “Yes, it’s all taken care of! Thanks to Seb-”

Miranda glanced at the two of them and smiled. “I almost forgot. Congratulations to you both for finding your happily ever after.”

Madison’s cheeks flushed red.

Sebastian’s lips curled up, and he replied meaningfully, “Same to you, Miranda.”

She raised an eyebrow.

Madison chimed in, “Exactly! Miranda, how could you not tell us you’re with Dr. Jefferson now?”

She had expected this and said, “Even if I didn’t tell you, you two already knew about it, right?”

“That’s different!”

Miranda retorted, “I did say I was going on a date. Wasn’t that obvious enough?”

Madison was at a loss for words. How was she supposed to get that? Was she at fault now?

and dropped off some materials for

immediately paused what he was

long time no see. How

bit swamped with overtime.” He deliberately lowered his voice during the latter part of his sentence, clearly worried that

Dr. Jefferson to ease up on the workload.

his hands in approval, as if he had found

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are in the lounge. Dr. Quinton, can you inform Sandy

coming here is enough, there’s no need to bring afternoon tea as well. I’ll

Miranda nodded.

office called earlier. There’s probably something urgent, so he’s on the

“Got it.”

Paul’s break room. Back when she borrowed his lab, she had also used half of

while he came in to change his clothes. Miranda

locked, so she pushed it

her. He was holding a phone and arguing with someone

moment his gaze

continued speaking into the phone, “I understand what you’re saying, but relationships should be

school’s challenges, I ask for the same consideration regarding my position. Let’s discuss

he hung up and

“What’s wrong? It didn’t

nothing, just a small

press further. Instead, Miranda placed some documents on his desk. “I went to the dean’s office to submit some documents and ran into Dr. Yarwood.

a few pages. “I just casually

was all in Danglish and filled