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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used the ‘thanks for helping my sister excuse‘. Next time I’m

mentions how important it is that he finds a mate as soon as possible I feel awful because I could basically solve half his life problems. Although I’m not really sure if a non–Shifter mate is what the Betas are expecting from him. Still, I think I would rather get to know Bellamy without the pressure, at least he won’t feel the pressure. I’ll just ignore it as

climbs in the car with Tristan. We follow them as they drive away. Bellamy

see us.

make him hate Tristan more.

anything.

black one.” I

blue hair from my eyes as I

sure if I feel better or worse knowing that I was

suppose

change anything between us.” Bellamy goes silent for a moment and when he

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said you wouldn’t tell me about my threads?” The words came out as a

question.

can’t ask me. Not that I wouldn’t

frowns.

“Is there a difference?”

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

eyebrow.

you have seen at least two then.

tone is

that this could be a perfect time to tell him about OUR thread.

internal debate.

own. If you know someone hasn’t met

course, you were to shoot one. Does that change the

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

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 lose them. Which by the way I have seen once and it was the most depressing thing. I know if they’re fated, not

fate happens no matter what, then why does it matter if you

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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

make sense?”

think so, but I still have a few doubts.” I roll

is irrelevant because people don’t believe me if I do say something.”

remind him.