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.

the message suggests

was genuinely from Sophia, it would have contained more helpful details,”

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

called me

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

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

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

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

to establish communication with

long without any word from

it would have

about her well-being

want to put my mind

spoke was back when we were

seems off, as if we’ve been in frequent

likely have

sending a message to a line that might

been entirely clear, but I

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

other hand, had

line of communication has been opened between

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

posing as Sophia must

confirm if it’s truly her or not, you should engage in conversation and share specific details that only she

wait

captive, she might cleverly mislead her captors and provide

knows we’re searching for her, and her captors might have informed her

her answers to help us uncover what’s really going on,”

nodded, looking at her, and she smiled

don’t have to worry about my feelings when it comes to

friend, nothing

added, but I could sense that Alex wasn’t

to keep

was

she’s still alive and safe,” Marvin expressed, echoing my biggest

dispose of

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

accomplish whatever they have planned,” Oliver pointed out,

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

safety and prayed that we

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

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

a smart

making it a casual

accuse us of treating them as