Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0276

Chapter 0276

**Josie’s POV**

We port in with the military teams and the moment we have everyone here a shield goes up to block anyone from being able to port out. The men begin to move in, approaching the Mall from all sides.

We have been paired with Bryce and a few other men, and we run towards the front entrance of the mall. The door looks intact, it has been repaired since the pictures we saw were taken. One of the men, Ryan, approaches the door quietly, signalling for us to stay back. He gently pushes on the door before looking back at us and shaking his head, indicating it is locked.

Mason moves forward, focusing on the door. I expect it to dissolve in a tinkling of glass, but instead, I hear a click and Mace nods. He must have managed to unlock it because the man beside him slowly pushes the door open. I focus my hearing inside the building but lear nothing

Ryan holds out a mirror on a stick, sliding it cautiously through the gap in the doorway.

“Clear,” he announces, before pushing open the door fully and stepping inside.

We all follow him in. The place is much cleaner than I’d expected, and the entryway opens up to reveal a large dried–up fountain in the centre with a big, curved staircase running on either side that leads up to the second floor.

upper

positioned in their protective formation around me, whilst Bryce and the other men take the right

met with two rows of shopfronts. Some still have shutters on the windows and some have no glass in the frames, but it’s clean, too clean for a place abandoned this long. The first shop we enter is mostly empty, apart from a waste bin and a few

sinks as it becomes more and more obvious that we missed

We should have moved in the minute

it’s fresh,” someone says through the comms, and my heart begins to race as a million possible explanations for

talking about?” Bryce asks as we move into the main hall to meet back up with his team.

down here and take a look,

way,” Bryce nods, moving towards the stairs.

in a bit of a daze, the stress of the whole situation finally catching up

my guys. Someone’s hand slips into mine,

blood on the floor beside it. As if whoever was on the bed had a wound that dripped down onto the floor.

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that this is all the blood they lost.

crate at the end of the bed. On top of It lays bloodied

the tracker,” Luke

thought it was undetecable. How did they find it?” Mason demands.

must have told

of resisting it. We should have expected this. This is our fault, and now they know everything Archie does,” Deacon says, his voice full of concern.