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

serious.

Mr Kane was my father.” His expression is sad. I

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alive and well, not with his son looking

uses my last name. Besides, the guy

relieved that I agreed so easily and…

can tell a lot about how a person is feeling and reacting from their scent…

questions for you.” I begin. He looks annoyed. You would think I had just told him he had

you. I’m not asking anything difficult, at least it shouldn’t

and you didn’t know it until I told you, so I doubt you got my details from anyone at Borderline.” I

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

because I walked home barefoot.” I say

you do that?” he asks curiously. I

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

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Surely they can’t be THAT bad…” he trails off. I lift my foot up and pull off my

my foot up so he can see. It is almost comical how horrified Bellamy looks. He actually leans forward and grabs my foot, pulling it

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

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

when she saw the note?” I find I am actually terrified to hear his response. I don’t want her to hate me. Bellamy drops his

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

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

I had to know if there was anything

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

crossed over his chest in my doorway. We have been so busy arguing, neither of us thought to close the