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

Sophia, it would have contained more helpful details,” I explained, and Noah voiced a different

to stay out of the matter to protect you? Sending a vague message would be the

called me if

more of a

surrounded by the enemy and needs

her no choice but to send a text message, Li,” he argued, and many others seemed to

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

establish communication with

any word from her, making this message seem

were genuinely from her, it would have

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

will want to put my mind

time we spoke was

off, as if

she isn’t aware that I’ve recovered my line, so she would likely have

a message to a line that might

but I had a gut feeling that I

this message doesn’t provide much information,” Charlotte acknowledged, stating the

on the other hand, had

this message, a line of communication has been

and see where it leads us,” she suggested, using air quotes when saying ‘Sophia,’ which elicited a laugh from

as Sophia

should engage

wait for

she might cleverly mislead her captors and

searching for her, and her captors might

answers to help us uncover what’s really going on,” Josephine explained, perfectly echoing

her, and she smiled in

to worry about my feelings

your friend, nothing more,” she assured

could sense

managed to keep my

was our inside joke, and the others remained oblivious to

still alive and safe,” Marvin expressed,

dispose of

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

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

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

prayed that we could resolve this situation as quickly as

the Beta off, and

we all laughed because it was clear that Justin had cleverly left us alone with the officers to question

a smart

not directly conducting the questioning and making it a

us of treating them as