It'd never work, that they were both certain of. He was reckless, against most she stood for; she was infuriating, she was cerberus, above all. All things aside, neither could help the attraction underlying their work ethic laced relationship. Miranda and Shepard, from both POV's, starts at the very beginning of ME2 and run all the way to ME3. M for language and content later on.

Shepard was feeling immensely dejected after his conversation with none other than Samara. But who was he to act hurt? He'd keep up the facade of being un-phased by the entire thing for as long as possible. It couldn't hurt, right? Shepard and Samara, both POV's, M for language and content in later chapters.