The Dark Side Of Fate

To Sam Street ~Liam~ I felt uneasy about how to handle sharing and discussing the text message.

I worried that mentioning Sophia might trouble Josephine, even though I knew she was resilient.

But I also feared that it could set back the progress we had made so far.

Instead of announcing the text to everyone, I decided to talk to Josephine first.

“Hey,” I said, linking her, and she turned to face me, her brow furrowing.

I expected this reaction, as linking in close proximity was reserved for private discussions.

“I want to show you something,” I said, handing her my phone with the text message.

She took the phone, read the message, and then returned it to me.

“The team should know,” she linked back, and I observed her carefully.

“It wouldn’t bother you?” I asked to be sure.

I was still new to this relationship thing and didn’t want to make any mistakes.

“Not at all, Liam.

We had our discussion this morning, and I’m confident that Sophia’s name won’t bother me anymore.

I promise,” she said with a smile and playfully punched my shoulder.

“I’m not that petty or jealous, Li,” she laughed, and I felt relieved.

“Attention, everyone; Li has something important to share,” Josephine declared, and a chuckle escaped me.

All eyes were on me, and I cleared my throat before speaking.

I put on a serious demeanour because the situation warranted it.

If they had Sophia’s mother’s phone, there was a possibility that something significant had occurred, and their circumstances might have altered.

Navigating through this with limited information wouldn’t be a simple task, but we must exercise utmost caution.

“I just received a text message from Sophia’s mother’s line, the same line she used to communicate with me,” I explained, passing my phone around so they could read the message.

“The last time she spoke to me, it was through Charlotte’s phone, as I hadn’t recovered my line back then,” I added.

Marvin was the first to ask a question.

“So why is she asking us not to search for her?” he inquired.

“That’s precisely my point.

If it were truly Sophia, she would have called instead of sending a text message.

message suggests an

more helpful details,”

just wants you to stay out of the matter to protect you? Sending a vague message would be the best way to ensure you have nothing to work with,” he suggested, and I nodded, understanding

have called me if

she’s more of a

she’s surrounded by the enemy and needs to secretly

leave her no choice but to send a text message,

share my theory if I didn’t believe the message was from Sophia, giving me

trying to establish communication with me while pretending to

word from

it would

more details about

want to put my mind at

we spoke was back

off, as if

aware that I’ve recovered my line, so she would likely have sent

sending a message to a line that might still

I had a gut feeling that I

this message doesn’t provide

the other hand, had

communication has

it leads us,” she suggested, using air

is posing as Sophia must

truly her or not, you should engage in conversation and share

can wait for her

she’s being held captive, she might cleverly mislead her

for her, and her

mislead them in her answers to help us uncover what’s really going on,” Josephine explained,

at her, and she smiled in

worry about my feelings

know she’s just your friend,

I could sense that Alex wasn’t entirely

I managed to

my momentary unease, but it was our inside joke, and the others remained oblivious to our unspoken

and safe,” Marvin expressed, echoing

won’t dispose

they won’t dare harm her, and if they have some ulterior motive involving her, they

any case, she’ll likely remain alive until they accomplish whatever they have

idea that Sophia couldn’t reach out to me when she wanted, troubled me

was deeply concerned about her safety and prayed that we could resolve this situation as

the

inquired, and we all laughed because it was clear

a smart move on his

the questioning and making it a casual conversation, it wouldn’t be considered an official

way, they couldn’t accuse us