Usage examples for fate:

• Fate placed us together, not choice. "An Unknown Lover" – Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

• But his mind still ran on Aldersbury, was still busy with the fate of their own bank. "Ovington's Bank" – Stanley J. Weyman

• Or should she buy the baby, and leave her auntie to her fate "Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple" – Sophie May