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.

he already told me his name, didn’t he? The Shifter looks

serious.

me Bellamy. Mr Kane was my father.” His expression

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can’t be alive and well, not with his son looking so miserable.

be super awkward for me to use his first name while he uses my last name. Besides, the guy

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

they can tell a lot about how a person is feeling and reacting from their scent…

annoyed. You would think I had just told him he

least it

I really would like to know how you found me. I didn’t even put my full name on the note, and you didn’t know it until I told you, so I doubt you got

all over the note. I assumed that it was placed in my sister’s bag at 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 there.

because I walked home barefoot.” I

he asks curiously. I

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

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he trails off. I lift my foot up and pull

so he can see. It is

how weird that is because he suddenly freezes

silence as I pull my bunny slipper back over my foot. I decide to move on to my next question and try not to think about the fact that he figured out my location by scent. It kind of seems like an invasion

I am actually terrified to hear his

saw. She was excited and didn’t seem to notice it. I’m not sure if I’m disappointed that my warning never made it to her

track me

sister, I had to know if there was

with him.” I interpret that as his tactful guy way of saying he hates Tristan and thinks he is a total ass.

us thought to close the door. Bellamy is on his feet in an instant and steps forward to meet the stranger.