Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 12

I try to keep my breathing steady. Not wanting to alert Mason to the fact I’m awake or that I’ve seen him. I scrunch my eyes closed, too scared to keep looking at those eyes. Slowly I move my hand to find Theo’s, and when my fingers wrap around his I give him three hard squeezes. He groans on the first squeeze, by the third he’s fully alert.

“Jose, what’s wrong?” he asks, sitting up.

“There’s someone in here,” I whisper. I feel Theo shift on the bed before the light clicks on.

“Where?” he asks. I open my eyes and look into the corner where I’d seen Mason, but he’s no longer there.

“He was right there,” I point with a shaky finger. Theo looks puzzled and slightly dazed. As he ‘scans the room. He checks the window and confirms it’s locked, then he checks any wardrobe and bathroom but finds nothing.

“Stay here, I’ll be right back,” he gives me a reassuring smile and picks up my room key before leaving. A few tense moments pass before Theo lets himself back into my room.

“I think it was a nightmare,” he smiles sympathetically.

“It wasn’t, I saw him. It was Mason,” I shake

my head.

“Mason is sleeping, I just checked. Plus he wouldn’t have been able to get in or out without making a noise,” Theo comes to sit beside me on the bed, he puts an arm around my shoulders and pulls me into his side to offer me comfort.

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Hating how weak

you see exactly?”

silhouette, their eyes

that narrows it down to anyone in the realm with a teleporting ability,” he

everyone do the blue glowy

the blue glowy eye thing,” he teases. “We all have blue eyes, and they can sometimes glow when we are using power,”

teleport?” I

it wasn’t Mason,” he says with a sigh and I can hear the slight irritation in his

the deal between you

hides from everyone else. You’re the only one he lets see just how broken he is. Whenever you’re alone with him the air feels charged with sexual tension, but he never makes a move. So one day you pluck up the courage to kiss him. And it’s the hottest kiss ever and he’s really into it, but then suddenly he pulls away and spends the next week avoiding you. Then he acts as though it never happened and it’s back to the sexual tension.” he laughs, but it’s a pained laugh. I lean into him

have you tried to talk

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as a little brother and I am imagining the whole thing. I crossed a line when I kissed

mean if you could see the way he looks a me… and he tried to kill me again

don’t think he was trying to kill you, just scare you. He’s that matters now because you’re here and you’re

Anyway, none of he squeezes

ready for all this bond stuff, and I don’t want to come between you and Mason,” I say, chewing

are bonds though, but it doesn’t mean I expect anything from you. I have to earn that. For now, we are friends, and I’m going to keep you safe and happy. Then one day, if you decide you want to bond with me, you’ll let me know. There’s

rescue earlier, and for not undressing me whilst I was in a magically induced coma,” I laugh.

of you like that,” he