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.

of the message

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

just wants you to stay out of the matter to protect you? Sending a vague message would be the best way

have called me

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

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

send a

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

think someone is trying to establish communication with me while pretending

any word

it would

contained more details about her well-being

will want to put my

was back when we were in

of this message seems off, as if we’ve

my line, so she would likely have sent the message to Charlotte’s phone to ensure

might still be switched off,” I concluded, and Charlotte

clear, but I had a gut feeling that I

Li, but you’re right; this message

hand, had

communication has been opened between us and whoever

and see where it leads us,” she suggested, using air quotes

is posing as Sophia must have a

her or not, you should engage in conversation and share specific details

wait

captive, she might cleverly mislead her captors

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

for her to mislead them in her answers to help us uncover

looking at her,

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

friend, nothing more,” she assured

I could sense that Alex wasn’t entirely

I managed to keep

unease, but it was our inside joke, and the others remained oblivious to our

safe,” Marvin expressed, echoing my

dispose of

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

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

idea that Sophia couldn’t reach out

deeply concerned about her safety and prayed that we

came back after seeing the Gamma and the Beta off,

it was clear that Justin had cleverly left us alone with

a smart move

it a casual conversation, it wouldn’t be considered

us of treating them