Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0221

+25 BONUS

“Sorry to disturb you, but the food is ready if anyone is hungry,” Deacon’s voice comes through the mind link, startling me awake.

“Nah, I just had a Mason sandwich, I’m good,” Theo responds, making me laugh and Mason growl.

“Thanks for that visual, Theo. Josie, you should eat,” Deacon responds.

“Give me five minutes to shower,” I say and groan as I push myself into a sitting position with Mason’s help, moving is starting to become difficult with this baby bump.

I go to my room and tie up my hair before quickly showering, when I leave my en–suite I find Mason, fully dressed and sitting on my bed with a tray of food.

and sit on the bed, picking up

the truth,” Mason says. I get the sense he had waited for me to take a bite so I couldn’t respond. He doesn’t want to talk, he just wants me to listen, and if that’s what

all and asked a friend for help, Cash, had returned with Mason. He had compelled them again but it had been less effective. They’d questioned him and so he’d used Mason and Dot as a threat to keep them quiet.

about Cash.

the truth of. I did learn that Cash was unbonded and had been travelling to the human realm to father as marty children as possible, as had all the unbonded Greys that Cornelius had recruited. He admitted He knew Cash had me locked away and had warned him that my parents were working out he wasn’t in their bond group. That’s why Cash had returned with me when he did. Then as I was questioning him I realised I recognised something familiar in him. It was just small things, like the way his nose tips up very slightlyat the end, and the defiant look in his eyes when I tried to get information from him he didn’t want to give. He’s your biological father Josie, and I was so close to keeping my promise to you. I almost killed him right there, and I would have, but I’d most likely have been punished for it. I’m sorry I

us,” I tell him, reaching out and taking his hand before bringing it to my bump, “we need you here. He is irrelevant. I

“What?”

and if any of the names in the naming bucket are even similar to his you will take them out.

that,” he nods.

wanting to move on from any talk of the piece of shit that took advantage of my mum

still a lot to talk about, but I’d like to invite them to the