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.

totally confused, he already told me his name, didn’t

serious.

my father.” His expression is sad. I don’t

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alive and well, not with his son looking so miserable. I

he uses my last name. Besides, the guy

him Bellamy, seems relieved that I agreed so easily and… is he breathing weirdly

it’s a Shifter thing, I heard they can tell a lot about how a person is feeling and reacting from their scent… which is kinda

annoyed. You would think I had just told him he had

difficult, at least it

first I really would like to know how you found me. I didn’t even put my full name on the note, and

evening, so I went there. It didn’t take me long to find

home barefoot.” I say

you do that?” he asks curiously. I point to the heels I had abandoned in

evil and I am pretty sure they were biting my feet off or something.

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lift my foot up and pull off my bunny slipper to

that bad.” I state as I hold my foot up so he can see. It is almost comical

that is because he suddenly freezes

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 of privacy or something, but who am I to talk. I literally spy on everyone’s personal

find I am actually terrified to hear his response. I don’t want her to hate me. Bellamy drops

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

surprised you took the effort to track me

there was anything

guy way of saying he hates

of us thought to close the door. Bellamy is