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

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

one or two of us in with you to

my guys. How am I supposed to choose? 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

ask, unable to choose.

will be observing and will communicate with you

with a shaky breath and Luke slides his hand into

point you want me to step in, you just let me know. Okay?” Luke

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

mine tighter as we follow Raff and an armed

first,” Raff says, gesturing to the door he has just o

opened.

I know it is the observation room before I even step in. I stop and take a breath, knowing that when I walk into this room I’m going to

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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

the doorway and giving me a moment to compose

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

their eyes focused on the man behind the glass. I finally turn to look at him, and it’s a bit of an anticlimax. He doesn’t look like the menace Imagined him as for all these years. My mum’s blue- eyed demon looks, well, normal.

his skin is pale, but I don’t suppose he sees much 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 his gaze suddenly rises to look at the glass and directly at me. The navy blue of his boiler suit makes his eyes look