lilachours
Taylor never believed in fate.
She believed in patterns.
After downloading The Red String, she expects nothing more than algorithms and coincidence. What she finds instead is a connection that feels too deliberate-too precise. Hermes doesn't charm her with affection or vulnerability. He studies her. He listens. He adjusts.
Unlike Amy, Taylor questions inconsistencies. She pushes back. She notices what doesn't add up.
But Hermes doesn't need devotion to win.
He designs outcomes.
As Taylor navigates conversations that feel like quiet chess matches, she begins to see the app not as a place of romance, but as a system-one that learns, adapts, and waits. And standing as proof of its success is Amy: healed, happy, and fiercely protective of the man who saved her.
A living warning.
A perfected trap.
In The Red String 2: Pattern Recognition, love is not destiny-it is design. And the most dangerous connections are the ones that make you believe you were always in control.