Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 278

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**Josie’s POV**

The prison has a smell I can’t pinpoint. It’s like a mix of a school and a hospital. The lights are harsh fluorescent, the kind that tries too hard to imitate natural daylight, but Instead, they give you a headache, and you can’t wait to escape. I guess it’s fitting they use them in a prison. It’s like an extra layer of punishment.

“Are you okay, Babe?” Theo asks as we wait in the family room.

“Not really, what if I don’t hate him? What if I believe his story?” I ask.

“There’s no right or wrong way to feel here. We can’t tell you what to feel or believe. In the end, the decision is yours, and we will support you no matter what you decide, Axel says, coming up behind me and running some of the tension from my shoulders.

“I’m going to try and keep this about finding Harper. I can decide the rest later, but I do need you all to help me decide if we can trust him near her. If we decide he can help us, we are going to expose our daughter to him, and that is a decision we should make together,” I say.

“Josie, you should know that I plan to compel him, even if I have to do it by force. If you don’t want to be in the room for that, then we will all understand. I’m going to ask him the harsh questions, and I’m going to go deep into what happened to your mum before I let him anywhere near our daughter,” Deacon admits, and I am not surprised. I expected as much.

I

see if he gives me the truth,” I ask.

would suggest you take only one or two of us in with you to start with, otherwise he may feel threatened and go straight

and questionable morals when it comes to my safety. I want Axe’s silent strength and barely controlled protectiveness. I want Luke’s rational input and comforting touch. I want Deacon’s professionalism and steady objectiveness

unable to choose.

us will be observing and will communicate with you if needed. We will be so close

say with a shaky breath and Luke slides his hand into

you want me

door to the family room opens and Raff pops his head in. “They’re ready for us,” he says, and I feel as though my

and an armed prison guard

gesturing to

opened.

step in. I stop and take a breath, knowing that when

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made me a Grey, I try to focus on that, he wasn’t my biological father, I wouldn’t be who I am today. I wouldn’t have my wonderful bonds and my amazing children. I push all the anger I have for what he did to my mum down. Otherwise, I may just kill him before we have a chance to talk, and I

blocking the doorway and giving me

breath before summoning up all my determination, and then I raise my head. “Yes,” I nod, and follow Axe in, with my hand in Luke’s and

and it’s a bit of an anticlimax. He doesn’t look like the menace Imagined him as for all these years.

sunlight in here. I study his features, remembering how Mason had seen similarities between us. We do have the same nose and maybe lips. too. As if he knows I am there