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

have contained more helpful details,”

possibility that she just wants you to stay out of the matter to protect you? Sending a vague message would

she would have called

messages; she’s more of a phone

if she’s surrounded by the enemy and needs to secretly communicate

a

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

to establish communication with me

too long without any word from her, making this message

her, it would have been sent to Charlotte’s

would have also contained more details about her well-being

want to put my mind at ease,” I

was back when

seems off, as if

would likely have sent the

sending a message to a line that might still be switched off,” I concluded,

clear, but I had a

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

on the other hand, had

but by receiving this message, a line of communication has been

to interact with ‘Sophia’ and see where it leads us,” she suggested, using air quotes

posing as Sophia must have

should engage in conversation and share specific details that only

wait for

held captive, she might cleverly mislead her captors and provide us

and her captors might

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

looking at her,

have to worry about my feelings when

your friend, nothing

she added, but I could sense

to keep my

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

safe,” Marvin expressed,

dispose

them, they won’t dare harm her, and if they

until they accomplish whatever they have planned,” Oliver pointed out, and his assessment was

that Sophia couldn’t reach out to me

about her safety and prayed that we could resolve

back after seeing the Gamma and the

they do?” he inquired, and we all laughed because it was clear that Justin had cleverly left us alone with the officers

smart move on

directly conducting the questioning and making it a casual conversation, it wouldn’t be

couldn’t accuse us of