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.

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

serious.

my father.” His expression

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

uses my last name. Besides, the guy is my soul mate, we’re going to have

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

heard they can tell a lot about how a person is feeling

He looks annoyed. You would think I

asking anything difficult, at least it shouldn’t be.” hesitantly, Bellamy nods and gestures for me to

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

place she went that evening, so I

I walked home barefoot.” I say nonchalantly.

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

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

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pull off my bunny slipper to reveal the

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

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

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. Besides, I did leave a

actually terrified to hear his response. I

took it before she saw. She was excited and didn’t seem to notice it. I’m

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

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

never really bonded with him.” I interpret that as his tactful guy way of saying he hates Tristan and thinks he is a total ass. I open my mouth

standing with his arms crossed over his chest in my doorway. We have been so busy arguing, neither of us thought to close the door. Bellamy is on his