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 underlying

from Sophia, it would have contained more helpful details,” I explained,

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,

would have called me

rarely sends text messages; she’s more of a phone person,” I explained before

she’s surrounded by the enemy and needs to

leave her no choice but to send a text message,

if I didn’t believe the message

someone is trying to establish communication with me while

been too long without any word from her, making this

genuinely from her, it would have

would have also contained more details about her well-being before asking

my mind at ease,” I

we spoke was back when

seems off, as if we’ve

so she would likely have sent the

sending a message to a line that might still be switched off,” I concluded, and Charlotte nodded in

but I had a gut

you’re right; this message doesn’t provide much information,” Charlotte

on the other hand, had a different

a line of communication has been opened

see where it leads us,” she suggested, using air quotes when saying ‘Sophia,’

posing as Sophia must have a

should engage

wait for

held captive, she might cleverly mislead her

for her, and her captors

wise for her to mislead them in her answers to help

her, and she smiled

about my feelings when it comes

she’s just your friend, nothing

have male friends too,” she added, but I could sense that Alex wasn’t entirely

I managed to keep my

noticed my momentary unease, but it was

still alive and safe,” Marvin expressed,

dispose of her

won’t dare harm her, and if they

accomplish whatever they have

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

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

came back after seeing the Gamma and the Beta off, and we remained

and we all laughed because it was clear that Justin had cleverly

smart

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

us