Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0269

**Deacon’s **

I pick up the plate of food on the table. I’m sure the girl is wrong about this, She has been through a lot and is clearly very scared, so I’m not surprised she suspects the food is poisoned. Given the rogue’s previous history of attempting to poison food and water, I’m not taking any cliances.

“Here is what I am going to do. I will have this food tested and have you and the children moved to a place where i know it is safe. That may take me some time to arrange, but in the meantime, I’m going to have some food. brought from my own kitchen, where my children eat. If you are still worried, I will eat some of the food in front of you,” I tell her.

“Why are you being nice to me? We are on opposite sides,” he asks, her eyes full of suspicion.

did, “Because I don’t believe we are on opposite sides. I believe you are a victim and didn’t choose this life. If you die you wouldn’t be so scared of your own people,” I shrug, giving her the truth.

“And how do you know I’m not just tricking you into thinking that?” She asks, her eyes finally meeting mine.

“Because from here on out you are going to answer my every question truthfully,” I say, lacing my words with my gift and taking control of her mind with compulsion.

I see the split second of panic in her eyes when she realises what I have just done. I know I should feel more guilt for doing this to her. She has already had enough free will stripped from her, but my daughter’s life could depend on getting the truth from this girl.

The girl sags in defeat; she knows she misjudged me. She had assumed that because I hadn’t attempted to compel her yet I didn’t have the ability. She had let her guard down and I had taken the opportunity. Maybe, once this is all over, I’ll find a way to earn her forgiveness.

“What is your name?” I ask.

“Lola Ford,” she says with a sigh.

“And how old are you, Lola?”

#19.”

“Do you know where Harper has been taken?”

me anything. I get taken to new places with barely any warning. I only find out where when I get there,” she says, scratching nervously at her forearms and

certainly worried that I’m going to ask her something she doesn’t want me to. I just have to work out what

your role with the

the children, that’s it,”

that could help

shakes her head.

what are you so worried about

sobs, and her rocking

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Chapter 0260

“How?”

to get him out of my face, but I

was it?”

Paul Walton. He was my boyfriend. We

HP were 15.”

happen?” I ask, writing down the name to give to my contact within the

18th birthday,”

were a Grey until that moment,” I say,

there, they called for someone to pick me up. I thought they were bringing me to the Grey realm. That’s what the adverts said would happen, but I was taken to some rundown building and told I was a part of their faction and my father had been waiting for my gifts to

sitting a little straighter in my chair, because if she is saying what I think she is, then this is massive and means

I did the assessment and was confirmed as a Grey,” she nods.

office did

“The Somerset one.”

remember who did your assessment?

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