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.

vagueness of the message

it would have contained more helpful details,” I explained, and Noah

the matter to protect you? Sending a vague message would be the best way to ensure you have

would have called

messages; she’s more of a phone person,”

if she’s surrounded by the enemy

but to send a text message, Li,” he argued, and

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

think someone is trying to establish communication

too long without any word from her, making this

from her, it would have

contained more details about her well-being before asking

will want to put my

was back

of this message seems off,

aware that I’ve recovered my line, so she would likely have sent the message to Charlotte’s phone

a line that might still be switched off,” I

have been entirely clear, but I

message doesn’t provide much information,” Charlotte acknowledged,

hand, had

communication has

us,” she suggested, using air

posing as Sophia must have a

not, you should engage in conversation and share specific details that

wait for her

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

she knows we’re searching for her, and her captors

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

her, and

worry about

your friend, nothing

added, but I could sense

managed to

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

still alive and safe,” Marvin expressed, echoing my

won’t dispose of

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

remain alive until they accomplish whatever they have planned,” Oliver

that Sophia couldn’t reach out to me when she

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

the Beta off, and we remained on high

he inquired, and we all laughed because it was clear that Justin had

a smart move on his

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

couldn’t accuse us of treating them