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 underlying

would have contained more helpful details,”

that she 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 with,” he suggested, and I

have called me if

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

the enemy and needs to secretly

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

I didn’t believe the

to establish communication with me while pretending to be

without any word from her, making this message seem

were genuinely from her, it

have also contained more details about her well-being before asking me

want to put my mind at

we spoke was back when we

this message seems off,

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

a line that might still

not have been entirely clear, but I had a

but you’re right; this message doesn’t provide

other hand, had

communication has been

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

is posing as Sophia must have

her or not, you should engage in conversation and

can wait for her

being held captive, she might cleverly mislead her

and her captors might have informed

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

looking at her,

about my feelings when

she’s just your friend, nothing more,” she

too,” she added, but I could sense that Alex wasn’t entirely comfortable with that

managed to

it was our inside joke, and the

and safe,” Marvin expressed, echoing my biggest

dispose of

is working for them, they won’t dare harm her, and if they have some ulterior motive

whatever they have planned,” Oliver pointed out, and his assessment

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

her safety and prayed that we could resolve this

came back after seeing the Gamma and the Beta off, and we remained on high

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

was a smart

a casual conversation, it wouldn’t be

accuse us of treating them