Strings of Fate

7- Demands and denials

“Or maybe 1 can just tell my shift manager that I have to leave…” Shaun grabs my hand and places it on his arm.

I want to.

it away but I feel like I probably shouldn’t antagonise this guy, at least not

until I’m sure he’s not a threat.

Seeing no real option but to go along with it, I leave my arm there and allow him to lead me from the restaurant. There is a black car parked out front. Shaun opens the door for me to get

in and climbs in beside me. Aaron makes his way to the drivers seat.

I rack my mind to consider why a Shifter Alpha would want to see me. Something to do with. Bellamy of course, but what?

Had he made some complaint about me? Or had he somehow figured out that I was his soul mate and planned to drag me kicking and screaming to the Shifter compound?

The fact that he has involved his Alpha is hardly promising. I don’t know a lot about Shifter politics and rules, but I do know that, to a Shifter, their Alpha is the highest authority that

they answer to.

If I am going to be dragged in front of the feline Alpha, I really would have appreciated some warning, maybe a chance to change into something other than my awful work uniform.

The car ride is awkward, but thankfully short. We pull into the feline Shifter compound. I’ve

never been here before, not that I have ever actually wanted to visit or anything. But even if I

did, Shifters are rather private and it is rare for them to invite non–Shifters into their gates. I wonder if it’s because they have some huge dramatic secret they’re keeping from the rest of the world. Or maybe they just don’t like random people wandering onto their land and trying to snap photos of them in their animal forms.

I know that a few years ago there were a bunch of humans who were arrested for poaching Shifters. They claimed that the fur and scales gathered from Shifters were of higher quality

than a normal animal.

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Additionally, Shifter blood and bones are apparemniy qutte unetful in potions and as magical tools for Witches and Sorcerers. I find it all matther creepy. Why would you want to drink a portion with blood in it? Maybe if you were a Vampire quem.

i

my blue and weed heads are visible again, so Bellamy

see what cam off the Helline Sher’s home. They have a huge amount of

basically a single long street full of houses which I suppose is where all the Shifters live. At the very end of the street is the biggest house of them all and it’s very clearly where we are headed. The houses on this street are all quite large and would cost a fortume, apprently Shifters make a lot more money than I had previously assumed. Not that I spend a lot of time considering Shifter finanwes, I have my own to worry about after all, but I guess it makes sense considering

largest house at the very end

am to help me out. I feel a little spiteful comidening that they

am

up. He has obviously got to be the one who started whatever drama Il a cught up in. It in

once again Shuun

lend me along

it. It’s just not worth the effort to argue. I try

of the flime Shifter’s Alpha. I think he is an older gentleman. He is pretty

about him going on rampages on anything like I have for the canine Alpitu.

excall another vatory from the news a few

in a avfall

What the tellime Alpha?

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my blue thread leads through. Megan must be through there somewhere. Shaun leads me to

voice from behind the door and my red thread leads straight to it. So apparently Bellamy is here. I knew whatever this is was his fault. Shaun opens the door and enters without knocking. I expect to see at least two people in the room and I am surprised to find

have bought Ryann Gale here,

keep my complete and utter shock

BELLAMY is the Alpha?

Of COURSE he is.

to be with the most complicated guy in the immediate area doesn’t it? I sigh internally. I probably need to pay better attention to Shifter politics, I get the feeling I am going to be mixed up in them plenty sometime

something? I disregard the idea immediately. He isn’t MY Alpha. Besides, he basically just ordered me kidnapped.

It occurs to me

decide to play it cool for now and to see what Bellamy wants before I chew him out for kidnapping me and potentially getting me

hips and stare him down, keeping my face as blank as possible. Bellamy gestures for me to

to get out without saying anything particularly

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Emergency calls only!

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for my self–control I think. Bellamy moves to sit on the comer of his

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