Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 278

+26 BONUS

**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

first? I want to see if he gives me the truth,” I ask.

you to start with, otherwise he may feel threatened and go straight

Each of them offers their own version of support and comfort and I want it all. I want Mason’s fury and questionable morals when it comes to my safety. I want Axe’s silent strength and barely controlled protectiveness. I want Luke’s

ask, unable

observing and will communicate with you if

a shaky breath and Luke slides

you want me to step in, you just let me

his head in. “They’re ready for us,” he says, and I feel as though my heart drops into my

hand grips mine tighter as we follow Raff and an armed prison

says, gesturing to the door he has just

opened.

breath, knowing that when I

+25 BONUS

Chapter 278

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 really need him to talk, to

and giving me a moment

and then I raise my head. “Yes,” I nod, and follow Axe in, with my hand in Luke’s

and it’s a bit of an anticlimax. He doesn’t look like the menace Imagined

the same nose and maybe lips. too. As if he knows I am