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

serious.

Mr Kane was my father.” His expression is

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alive and well, not with his son looking

offer, mostly because it would be super awkward for me to use his first name while he uses my last name. Besides, the

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

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

He looks annoyed. You would think I had just told him

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

me. I didn’t even put my full name on the note, and you

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

because I walked home barefoot.” I say nonchalantly. He seems

asks curiously. I

sure they were biting my feet off or something. Sadly, they are part of my uniform at work.”

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your feet off? 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

he can see. It is almost comical how horrified Bellamy

to realise how weird that is because he suddenly freezes and, almost as quickly as he

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

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

different in her purse, you I suppose, and I took it before she saw. She was excited and didn’t seem to notice it. I’m not sure if I’m disappointed

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

had to know if there was

his tactful guy way of saying he hates Tristan and thinks he is a total ass. I open my

in my doorway. We have been so busy arguing, neither of us thought to close the door. Bellamy is on his feet in an instant and steps forward to meet the