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 an

was genuinely from Sophia, it would have contained more helpful details,” I explained, and Noah voiced

just wants you to stay out of the matter to protect you? Sending a vague message would be the best way to ensure you have nothing to work

called me

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

enemy and needs to secretly communicate with

might leave her no choice but to send a text message, Li,” he

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

establish communication with me while

long without any word from her,

her, it would have been sent to

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

my mind at ease,” I

last time we spoke was

of this message seems off, as if we’ve

I’ve recovered my line, so she would likely have sent the message to

line that might still

clear, but I had a gut feeling that I was onto

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

other hand, had

line of communication has been

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

as Sophia must have

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

we can wait for

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

and her captors might

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

nodded, looking at her,

worry about my feelings

your friend, nothing

male friends too,” she added, but I could sense that

managed to

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

safe,” Marvin expressed, echoing

won’t dispose of

is working for them, they won’t dare harm her, and if

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

this gave me some sense of comfort, but the idea that Sophia couldn’t reach out to me when she wanted,

her safety and prayed that we could resolve this situation as

the Gamma and the

inquired, and we all laughed because it was clear that Justin had cleverly left us alone

was a smart

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

way, they couldn’t accuse us of treating them as