Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0233

+25 BONUS

The meeting seems to drag on forever. My mum does most of the talking as my mind is elsewhere. Luckily our finances are good and we have had a surge in funding front the elders since the new generation had taken over.

We had been offered the role of Grey Elders, being the only living spark bond we had been offered the position first, but we wanted to focus on our family for the time being so had turned down the position.

Over the last few years, we have had to expand the academy building more accommodation and extra classrooms. Since the whole ordeal with Cornelius, we had been overwhelmed with new Greys coming from the human realm. We have had to set up permanent offices in the human real for teens to report to if they showed any signs of being superhuman when they turned 18. The rogues in the human realm had certainly been busy over there and we expect it will take another 10-12 years to find all the Greys born there.

There has been a knock–on effect throughout this realm, with a lot of us having to work harder to play catch up. The seer has been having to make more visits than usual. Reading all our new arrivals when they come. Tutors are having to put in extra hours to catch up with the students arriving from the human realm and we are all working hard to trace their families so they don’t feel alone here. Josie has been facilitating family visits between here and the human realm, it was a cause that was very important to her and she was perfect for the role.

is happy with the current financial plans I begin to pack up my stuff to leave. I

you jacket.

running the academy for a while?” I ask as

with Josie through her

going to have to help out more.

for me to put this burden on my parents. They haven’t had it easy

too. It’s about time you put yourself and your family first. If you need a year off then we will

else to run the academy. I don’t want to add more work to you,” I say.

our family, but you know what was even more important to him than this place?… You. He would want you to put yourself first and let us take over here for a while. I don’t even need to ask your other fathers, I already know they will agree. Now go home and discuss it with your bond group, work out a time to all take a year together and let us know when we should start,” she says in that chastising but loving way that

you, Mum. I love you, I don’t tell you that enough, I say, pulling her

too, My Boy, now go,”