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.

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

serious.

was my father.” His expression

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

his first name while he uses my last name. Besides,

I mentally remind myself to call him Bellamy, seems relieved that I agreed so easily and… is

person is feeling and reacting from their scent… which is

He looks annoyed. You would think I had just

down would you. I’m not asking anything difficult, at least it shouldn’t be.” hesitantly, Bellamy nods and gestures

put my full name on the note, and you didn’t know it until I told you, so I doubt you got

restaurant since that’s the only place she went that evening, so I

barefoot.”

that?” he asks curiously. I point to the

biting my feet off or something. Sadly, they are part of my uniform

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pull off my bunny

he can see. It is almost comical how horrified

suddenly freezes and, almost as quickly

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 relationships constantly.

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

purse, you I suppose, and I took it before she saw. She was excited and didn’t seem to

took the effort to track me down.” I comment. He shifts uncomfortably in his

sister, I had to know if there was anything to the note.

he hates Tristan and thinks he is a total ass. I open my mouth to say so, but I am interrupted by someone at the

arguing, neither of us thought to close the door. Bellamy is on his feet in an instant and steps forward to meet