Strings of Fate

5- Neighbours and nastiness

The more time I spend with this Shifter, the more I begin to think fate got it

wrong.

I wonder if there is a way to break threads or get rid of them in some way. I’ve never seen it happen before. Even in death people are tied together.

I once walked past a cemetery and saw an old man visiting his wife’s grave. The red thread still flowed from his chest and vanished down into the ground connecting him forever to his beloved. It was depressing but also sort of romantic in a morbid kind of way.

I glanced back at the man sitting at the table across from me. I can’t imagine being linked with him forever. I really hope fate knows what it’s doing, giving me this man as my soul

mate.

“Yes, I will be friends with your twin sister. It is fated.” He scowls at me.

“You aren’t even a Shifter, why would fate want you to be friends with my sister?” Now it’s

my turn to scowl back at him.

“What does that have to do with anything? Everyone has a fate Mr Kane, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. When I look at someone, I see the threads of their fate, not their

species.”

I am feeling incredibly annoyed. This man is my soul mate, how can he be such a jerk? This was definitely not the first meeting I expected when I finally met the holder of my red thread.

I had hoped for something a little sweeter, maybe cute or romantic. But no, I get yelled at and

insulted. Yay for me. He stares at me for a moment.

“Bellamy.” he suddenly states.

told me

serious.

Bellamy. Mr Kane was my father.” His expression is sad. I don’t

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I am certain that he can’t be alive and well, not with his

to use his first name while he uses my last name. Besides, the guy is my soul mate, we’re going to have

mentally remind myself to call him Bellamy, seems relieved that I agreed so

a Shifter thing, I heard they can tell a lot about how a person is feeling and reacting from their scent… which is kinda weird but I guess it would be

looks annoyed. You would think I had

anything difficult, at least

put my full name on the note, and you

the restaurant since that’s the only place she went that evening, so I went there. It didn’t take me long to find you from

home barefoot.” I

curiously. I point

am pretty sure they were biting my feet off or something. Sadly,

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Surely they can’t be THAT bad…” he trails off. I lift my foot up and pull off my bunny slipper to reveal the blisters and red marks that marr the pale

can see. It is almost comical how horrified Bellamy

is because he suddenly freezes and, almost as quickly as he grabs

and try not to think about the fact that he figured out

sister react when she saw the note?” I find I am actually terrified to hear

it. I scented something different in her purse, you I suppose, and I took it before she saw. She was excited and

track me down.” I comment. He shifts uncomfortably

if there was anything

saying he hates Tristan and thinks he is a total ass. I open

have been so busy arguing, neither of us thought to close the door. Bellamy is on his