Chapter 282

**Josie’s POV**

We all freeze, waiting for some reaction from my mum, who looks at me in confusion before rushing to me and pulling me in for a hug.

“I’m sorry, Josie Bean, I know you told us to stay home, but I couldn’t sit there any longer. Frank is there and will call if Harper turns up,” my mum says.

“And I have a camera set up with motion detection. If she turns up at my place, I’ll get a notification on my phone, and we can be back there in seconds,” Freya explains

I cast a quick glance behind me and see that my guys have formed a shield in front of Robert, blocking him from

my mum’s sight.

“Thank you for coming, but I’m not sure if there is anything you can do. We know now Harper isn’t just missing, she has been taken by rogues,” I explain.

“Oh, Harper,” my mum begins to sob, and I wrap an arm around her.

“Those fuckers are back? I thought you got

them all last time?” Freya asks, her fury clear on her fac

“Let’s go to the kitchen and make some tea, and I’ll catch you both up,” I say, leading my mum away from Robert.

going to lose her mind again if she sees him?”

negatively to him. I removed what I thought was the trauma surrounding him from her memory. She may recognise him as your biological father, but I made him a man she had

break all those years ago. I had always blamed Robert, but now I know the truth about his story with her, I can’t blame him. There must have been something else that caused it. Something that I need to

the kitchen table and I hand her a box of tissues

Why did your men hide that guy back

wiping her face with

biological father,”

the direction of where we just left Robert and her

how we thought. He didn’t hurt her, he

him?”

D had him under compulsion. It’s quite a sad story, and I’m still trying to process it. I’ll tell you everything later, but he’s not the man we thought he

life? Fair enough, he might not have forced himself on your mum, but he still

to help find Harper. She is all that matters right now. If you can’t handle that and be civil towards

Chapter 287

now,” I snap.

was just a shock is all,” Freya says, and I can

is happening to her, and I’m just here, making fucking tea,” I shout, my voice rising with every word as the weight of everything finally gets to me. I launch the empty cup in my hand across the room, the porcelain shattering as it

I break down, hear my mum fussing and Freya trying to calm me, but I don’t register their words as I scream out all my pain and frustration. Strong arms scoop me up and hold me close.

calm down,” Deacon’s steady voice floats into my

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got you,” Luke soothes.

If y

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