Strings of Fate

18- Waiting and watching

Bellamy’s mood seems to have improved. Every now and then I glance up at him and every time he smiles at me. It’s actually almost scary. We finish eating then Bellamy pays for the food and leave to walk to his car which he claims is only a few streets away. His mood is still bright, in fact he might even be more cheerful than he was while we were eating.

“What’s with you all of a sudden?” I ask thoughtlessly. The smile on his face fades.

“What do you mean?” he asks cautiously. I shrug.

“I don’t know, you’re all happy. I can’t figure out why.” Bellamy looks

“What is it?” I demand.

away.

“Well, that meal went better than the last one. You didn’t even argue when I paid for the

food.” I roll my eyes at him.

“I figured I would just give you cash later, or pay if we end up eating out again.” Bellamy

shakes his head.

“Just leave it.” I open my mouth to object. He turns a dazzling smile on me.

“Please?” I frown. He is trying to charm me into compliance with that smile which just makes me more suspicious of it.

“Why?” Bellamy just shrugs.

“I like feeding you.” He freezes when his mind catches up with his words and realises how

odd it sounded.

“I mean… I. It’s no inconvenience, just think of it as a thank you for helping with my sister and…” he trails off awkwardly. I’m blushing and I drop my eyes to the ground. I think back to what Megan said about Shifters feeling generous towards their mates. I suppose there isn’t a lot I can do to change that, but I promise myself I will try not to take advantage of it.

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you’ve used the ‘thanks for helping my sister excuse‘. Next time I’m paying for myself.”

least he won’t feel the pressure. I’ll just ignore it as best as I can. The problem is that the longer I leave it the harder it is going to be to tell the truth. This is so frustrating. We reach the car and Bellamy opens

surprise.” I sigh as Megan climbs in the car with Tristan. We follow

see us.

tell Bellamy, is it going to make him hate Tristan more. or change how he views him? I banish the thought from my head. Bellamy already hates the guy. I can’t really make

anything.

black one.” I

confirms. I nod, pushing a strand of my midnight blue hair from my eyes as

not sure if I feel better or worse knowing that I was fated to be enemies with

suppose

silent for a moment and when he

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tell me about my threads?” The words came out as a

question.

said is that you can’t ask me. Not that I wouldn’t tell you.” I remind

frowns.

“Is there a difference?”

this way I choose when and what I tell you about them.”

eyebrow.

you have seen at least two then. I can’t say

tone is

about OUR thread. He’s in a good mood and we haven’t fought in at least thirty minutes. But I talk myself out of it. For starters, I am not giving him such shocking information while he is behind the wheel of a car. He would likely kill us both. I jump when he

internal debate.

worry, not about my own. If you know someone hasn’t met those people they are fated to meet, does that mean that you

die? What if, theoretically of course, you were to shoot one.

I don’t need to supervise it. If I were to

would have been accounted for in planning that person’s fate. If I shot someone, I might miss and just hurt them and they might meet the person they are meant to meet at the hospital. Maybe they will be dying and then the person they were meant to meet would show up in time to try and save them, get attached, then

what, then why does it matter

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them differently which makes everything more complicated. If I told a couple that they were fated to be together, assuming they actually believed me. Then sure, they might get together, but they would probably not be honest with each other, they would treat each other how they think they should and would probably not be their genuine selves which would result in trouble which they would then have to resolve later. Trouble which could have been avoided if I left

make

but I still have a few doubts.” I roll

irrelevant because people don’t believe me if I

remind him.