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

more helpful details,” I explained,

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

called me if

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

surrounded by the enemy and needs to secretly communicate with

but to send a text message, Li,” he argued, and many others seemed

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

establish communication with me while pretending to be

word

genuinely from her, it would have been sent to

also contained more details about her well-being before

put my

spoke was back when

this message seems off, as if we’ve

likely have sent the message to Charlotte’s phone to ensure I

wouldn’t risk sending a message to a line that might still be switched off,” I concluded, and Charlotte nodded in

have been entirely clear, but I had a gut feeling that

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

the other hand, had a different

receiving this message, a line of communication has been opened between us and

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

as Sophia must

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

we can wait for her

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

and her captors might

mislead them in her answers to help us

nodded, looking at her, and she

have to worry about my feelings when it

friend, nothing more,” she assured

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

to keep my

was our inside joke, and the others remained oblivious to our

and safe,” Marvin expressed,

dispose of her

they won’t dare harm her, and if they

whatever they

the idea that Sophia couldn’t reach out

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

Gamma and the Beta

it was clear that Justin had cleverly left us alone with the

was a smart

conducting the questioning and making it a casual conversation,

us