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

would have contained more helpful details,” I

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

she would have called me if it were

she’s more of a phone

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 seemed

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

communication with me

without any word from her, making this

genuinely from her, it would have been sent

contained more details about her well-being before asking me to stop

will want to put my mind

we spoke was back when we

of this message seems off, as if we’ve

she would likely have sent the message to Charlotte’s

a line that might still be switched off,”

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

but you’re right; this message doesn’t

on the other hand, had a

line of communication has been opened between us and whoever

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

Sophia

you should engage

wait for her

she might cleverly mislead her captors and provide us with

for her, and her captors might have informed

help us uncover what’s really going on,”

looking at her, and she smiled in

have to worry about my feelings when it

friend, nothing more,” she assured

could sense that Alex wasn’t

to keep my

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

hope she’s still alive and safe,”

dispose of her

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

until they accomplish whatever they have planned,” Oliver

me some sense of comfort, but the idea that Sophia

and prayed that we could resolve this

came back after seeing the Gamma and the

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

was a smart move on

making it a casual conversation, it wouldn’t be

way, they couldn’t accuse us of treating